3000 NIGHTS
by Mai Masri
synopsis
In her first feature film filmmaker Mai Masri explores the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Young Layla gets arrested and sentenced to a long prison sentence after picking up a Palestinian hitchhiker. In prison – where she realizes that she is pregnant – she ends up in the middle of a rebellion orchestrated by the other prisoners.
international title: | 3000 Nights |
original title: | 3000 Layla |
country: | Palestine, France, Jordan, Lebanon |
year: | 2015 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Mai Masri |
film run: | 103' |
release date: | FR 4/01/2017 |
screenplay: | Mai Masri |
cast: | Maisa Abd Elhadi, Nadera Omran, Abeer Haddad, Karim Saleh |
cinematography by: | Gilles Porte |
art director: | Hussein Baydoun |
costumes designer: | Hamada Atallah |
music: | Sharif Sehnaoui |
producer: | Sabine Sidawi-Hamdan, Mai Masri, Charlotte Uzu |
production: | Les Films d'Ici, Nour Productions [LB], Orjouane Productions [LB], Philistine Films [PS] |
distributor: | JHR Films, MAD Solutions [EG] |