Sana et Jabr vivent dans un camp de réfugiés près de Ramallah. Il travaille dans un cinéma itinérant tandis qu’elle travaille bénévolement avec les équipes de secours du Croissant Rouge. Jabr tente d’organiser une projection de films pour les élèves d’une école du vieux Jérusalem. Les rapports du couple sont de plus en plus tendus à cause des risques que Jabr prend pour se rendre à Jérusalem et à cause des soupçons de Sana sur les véritables motivations de son mari.


Palestine – Pays-Bas | 2002, 85 min, version originale arabe sous titrée bilingue, 35mm.


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Jaber tries to make ends meet for a good life with his wife in the Palestinian refugee camp near Ramallah, just north of Jerusalem. A kind, gentle man in his early 40s, Jaber runs a mobile cinema, bringing entertainment to both children and adults throughout the disputed territory of the West Bank. Because of the declining situation of the conflict, his mission meets more and more obstacles. Too many checkpoints, difficult-to-obtain permits…
One day, Jaber is encouraged by Rabab, a woman school teacher, to organize a screening in Jerusalem’s old city. His perseverance is put to the test when he investigates the complicated possibilities of staging this screening. His efforts get him involved in the problems of Rabab’s elderly mother, a Jerusalem resident trying to protect her home from Israeli settlers.
Tension erupts in Jaber’s relationship with his wife, Sanah, who questions her husband’s motives for continuing to take risks in his repeated trips to Jersusalem. But Jaber is determined to make the Jerusalem screening happen…

By Rashid Masharawi
France/ Palestine/The Netherlands, 2002, 85 min, 35mm, color

With GASSAN ABAS, AREEN CMARY, REEM AL LOU

Written & directed by Rashid Masharawi
Camera: Baudouin Koenig
Editing: Nestor Sanz & Jan Hendriks
Music: Samir Jubran

World Sales
Silkroad Production
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Tel: +33(0)1 53 41 41 61

With support from
ADC-Sud – French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France), Arte France, SBS-Australia



Awards
The Special Jury Prize (Silver Pyramid), Cairo Film Festival -Egypt, 2002
Public Prize by Tribune de Genève, Cinema Tout Ecran-Geneva, 2002
Special Prize by Signis Jury, Amiens Film Festival-France, 2002
Love & Peace Award, MedFilm Festival-Rome, 2002
The Grand Prix, Festival Cinéma Méditerranéen à Bruxelles, Belgium, 2002

Festivals
Taormina Film Festival -Italy (World Premiere of the film), July 2002
Documenta 11, Kassel-Germany, 2002
Arab Cinema Biennale-Paris, 2002
Rabat Film Festival -Morocco, 2002
Gindou Film Festival-France, 2002
Toronto Film Festival-Canada, 2002
Cairo Film Festival -Egypt, The Special Jury Prize (Silver Pyramid), October 2002
Cinema Tout Ecran-Geneva, Public Prize, October 2002
Amiens Film Festival-France, Special Prize by Signis Jury, 2002
MedFilm Festival-Rome- Love & Peace Award, November 2002
Festival du Cinéma Méditerranéen, Bruxelles, The Grand Prix, December 2002
Washington Film Festival-USA, 2002
Films from the South Festival, Oslo – Norway, 2002
Mannheim Film Festival -Germany, 2002
Fajr Film Festival, Tehran – Iran-Competition-Feb. 2003
Göteborg Film Festival, Sweden, 2003
Festival Mare Nostrum, Belfort – France, March 2003
Festival Cinéma d’Alès, France, March 2003
Festival Intl. de Laon – France, Competition-April 2003
Cinéma Novo, Bruge – Belgium, 2003
New Directors-New Films Festival – NY, USA 2003
Freiburger Film Forum, Switzerland, March 2003
ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London-UK, July 2003
Festival Peuple et culture, Tolle, France, February 2004
Singapour International Film Festival, April 2004
Institut du Monde Arabe, France, May 2004
Osian’s – Cinefan Festival of Asian Cinema, New-Delhi, July 2004
Busan 2004 Contemporary Art Exhibition, Busan, Korea, August – October 2004
Centre Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, May – August 2004
Pune Intl Film Festival, Pune, India, January 2005

Distribution
Italy – Istituto Luce
The Netherlands – Argus Films
Switzerland – Trigon Film
Belgium & Luxemburg – Libération Films
USA – Global Films Initiative
Turkey – Kanal 7