International Competition · 44th Edition
ALAM
Director
Firas Khoury
Country
France, Tunisia, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Qatar
Runtime
1 h 44 min
Language
Arabic, Hebrew
Premiere
MENA premiere (Middle East and North Africa)
Synopsis
Five Israeli-Palestinian high-school classmates, struggling under the burden of forced forgetting, weigh the risks involved in remembering a different history.
Cast
Mahmoud Bakri, Sereen Khass, Saleh Bakri, Mohammad Karaki, Ahmad Zaghmouri
Screenplay
Firas Khoury
Producers
Marie Pierre Macia, Claire Gadéa
About the Director
A Palestinian scriptwriter and director who holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in cinema. Khoury’s filmography includes several short films, including the award-winning SEVEN DAYS IN DEIR BULUS (2007) and YELLOW MUMS (2010). These films were shown in festivals around the world and on TV channels. In 2019, he directed MARADONA'S LEGS, a short film that received the Robert Bosch Stiftung Film Prize as well as Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg’s support. The film was screened at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
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