Najwa Najjar : 2014
Ouyoun el haramiya
At the height of the Palestinian Uprising in 2002, Tareq, an enigmatic man, bears fresh wounds. Tended to by local nuns, who help him escape, he's soon arrested by Israeli soldiers. Ten years later, he is released from prison and returns to his town, a place transformed by drastic changes, to search for his daughter who was an infant when he was imprisoned. Tarek finds ten-year-old Malak, whom he suspects is his daughter, but her adoptive mother is being forced into an arranged marriage with the town's main businessman whom Tarek seems to have unfinished business with. As secrets are uncovered, light is shed on the stifling nature of contemporary Palestinian society, whilst revealing Tareq's hidden past. The sense of moral certainty is replaced by questionable individual choices with no easy answers. Najwa Najjar's second feature premiered at Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival 2014, and screened at Stockfish European Film Festival in Reykjavik 2015.
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