Ferenc Radnai

События фильма разворачиваются в 1948 году во время войны между Израилем и Палестиной. Четырнадцатилетняя палестинская девочка Фарха сидит в подвале во время обстрелов и наблюдает, как война уничтожает её дом.

Guiseppe Verdi’s Requiem is still heard mainly in theatre and concert halls. However, the author himself intended this composition to be performed in church, and on special occasions. Conducted by Teodor Currentzis and performed by soloists and musicAeterna choir and orchestra, Verdi’s famous funeral mass returns from the concert stage to Milan’s Church of San Marco, the same place where it was premiered in 1874. The seven parts of the Requiem become steps on the way to comprehending the sacrament of death, the operatic character of orchestral and vocal writing acquires the strictness of the Catholic tradition, and musical images of rage, despair, and rebellion against the inevitable end are crowned with appeasement.

A Palestinian comedy about women crammed in a tiny beauty parlor on the Gaza Strip

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.

Jeanne is a woman who is driven by her very active conscience. She attempts to assuage her idealistic bent by trying out life as a nun, but this doesn't work out. After she leaves the convent, she takes a job at a factory, where the callousness of management spurs her to become a labor activist. Her efforts are marked by great persistence and fervor, but she lacks any kind of diplomacy or persuasiveness, and as the years progress, she manages to alienate everyone in her life. By the end of the film, there is only one way that she can see to resolve the horrible situation she finds herself in.