Reem Jubran
História
Reem Jubran is a Palestinian-American director and writer. She is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Directing/Writing from UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television where she is producing, writing, and directing her own short films after having worked two years as assistant director for award-winning Palestinian films.
Yaffa
On the Pacific coast of Los Angeles, Ali and Yaffa struggle to remember the Arab Mediterranean cities they have left behind.
Second Assistant Director
Three religions. Two men. One mission. Ben has gone off into the desert. In order to escape the matchmaking attempts of his family in Jerusalem, he agrees to fly to Alexandria to save what was once the largest Jewish community in the world, which is desperately short of a tenth man to celebrate Passover. When Ben misses his flight and is subsequently thrown off a bus in the Sinai Desert, a grumpy Bedouin in search of his lost camel becomes Ben’s only hope.
Second Second Assistant Director
After her first semester of college at Berkeley, Natalie drives home to LA with her childhood friend, Joanne, for Chinese New Year. Navigating the festivities that were once inviting but now tinged with a foreign animosity, Natalie must juggle between the growing attraction shared herself and Joanne, and the prying eyes of those she once called home.
Director
Zaid, a young Arab-American amateur drag queen, has to confront his conservative father and ailing grandfather about his identity.
Second Assistant Director
O diretor Elia Suleiman estrela seu próprio filme, uma saga cômica que investiga os significados do exílio e da busca por um lar. Palestino, Suleiman deixa seu país, à procura de uma nova vida. Mas aonde quer que ele vá, de Paris a Nova York, a Palestina parece segui-lo, pois algo sempre o faz lembrar de casa.
Second Assistant Director
Salam, um jovem palestino inexperiente, torna-se escritor em uma novela popular depois de um encontro casual com um soldado israelense.
First Assistant Director
The affaire of a married Palestinian man and a married Israeli woman in Jerusalem takes a dangerous political dimension when they are spotted in the wrong place at the wrong time leaving them to deal with more than their broken marriages.
Second Assistant Director
Abu-Shadi é um pai divorciado que vive em Nazaré. Após o casamento de sua filha, ele será deixado sozinho. Seu filho Shadi chega de Roma para ajudar a entregar os convites de casamento a cada convidado, de acordo com os costumes palestinos locais. Shadi, cujo estilo de vida nunca foi muito apreciado por seu pai, passou os últimos anos no exterior e há muito pouco que ele sente falta do lugar que deixou há muito tempo. À medida que os homens dirigem por Nazaré, seu estado de seu relacionamento desconfortável se desenrola. Abu-Shadi tenta se conectar com seu filho, enquanto sente ressentimento que Shadi tomou o lado de sua mãe após o divórcio.
