Ula Tabari

Salam, an inexperienced young Palestinian man, becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a chance meeting with an Israeli soldier. His creative career is on the rise - until the soldier and the show's financial backers disagree about how the show should end, and Salam is caught in the middle.

Damascus, Spring 2011. It's the early stages of the civil war. 25-year-old Nahla is torn between her desire for freedom and the hope of leaving the country thanks to her arranged marriage with Samir, a Syrian expatriate in the USA. When he chooses her younger, more docile sister Myriam, Nahla finds refuge at her neighbor's, the mysterious Ms Jiji.

Three unmarried aristocratic Christian sisters from Ramallah have shut themselves in their villa clinging desperately to their former glory, until their orphan niece, Badia, walks into their life and turns their world upside down.

Агент МОССАД и его группа выслеживает и методично уничтожает палестинских террористов, повинных в смерти израильских спортсменов в аэропорту Мюнхена после Олимпиады 1972 года…

".... I used to ... all Palestinian kids in Israel, used to hold the Israeli flag and sing for Israel in Arabic. Each year we used to do that, to celebrate, we would prepare dance shows, theater plays and songs! A lot of decorations and flags everywhere... And no one said anything. Imagine we used to stand on lines at the schoolyard each with his little blue and white flag. But the next day which is the Independence Day, a free day when all families and friends were supposed to go out on a picnic somewhere, or to the beach... my father always used to be sick and we never left the house on that specific day.

".... I used to ... all Palestinian kids in Israel, used to hold the Israeli flag and sing for Israel in Arabic. Each year we used to do that, to celebrate, we would prepare dance shows, theater plays and songs! A lot of decorations and flags everywhere... And no one said anything. Imagine we used to stand on lines at the schoolyard each with his little blue and white flag. But the next day which is the Independence Day, a free day when all families and friends were supposed to go out on a picnic somewhere, or to the beach... my father always used to be sick and we never left the house on that specific day.

Анекдотичные сценки из их повседневной жизни Назарета, маленькие абсурдные моменты будней и создают основную часть сюжета фильма. Неизбежны столкновения палестинцев с еврейской частью населения, в особенности с вездесущей израильской полицией. Но сквозь абсурд, как нам известно из пьес Ионеско и Беккета, проглядывает особенная, выкристаллизованная правда, очищенная от шелухи общепринятых норм и установок.

Анекдотичные сценки из их повседневной жизни Назарета, маленькие абсурдные моменты будней и создают основную часть сюжета фильма. Неизбежны столкновения палестинцев с еврейской частью населения, в особенности с вездесущей израильской полицией. Но сквозь абсурд, как нам известно из пьес Ионеско и Беккета, проглядывает особенная, выкристаллизованная правда, очищенная от шелухи общепринятых норм и установок.