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SALT OF THIS SEA

by Annemarie Jacir

synopsis

Soraya, 28, born and raised in Brooklyn, decides to return to live in Palestine, the country her family was exiled from in 1948. On arriving in Ramallah, Soraya tries to recover her grandparent’s money, frozen in an account in Jaffa, but is refused by the bank. She meets Emad, a young Palestinian whose ambition, contrary to hers, is to leave forever. Tired of the constraints that dictate their lives, Soraya and Emad know in order to be free, they must take things into their own hands, even it means breaking the law. In this quest for life, we follow their trail through remains of a lost Palestine.

international title: Salt of this Sea
original title: Milh Hadha Al-Bahr
country: France, Palestine, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain
sales agent: Pyramide International
year: 2008
genre: fiction
directed by: Annemarie Jacir
film run: 109'
release date: FR 03/09/2008, BE 10/12/2008, GR 22/01/2009, NL 23/04/2009, ES 24/04/2009
screenplay: Annemarie Jacir, Annemarie Jacir
cast: Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri, Ryad Dias, Sylvia Wetz
cinematography by: Benoît Chamaillard
film editing: Michèle Hubinon
art director: Françoise Joset
music: Kamran Rastegar
producer: Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin
production: JBA Production, Thelma Film AG, Tarantula Belgique, The Mediapro Studio, Philistine Films (PL), Clarity World Films (UK), August Film (NL)
distributor: Pyramide Distribution, Alta Classics (ES)

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