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Pomegranates and Myrrh (15)

Thursday, 11 March 2010

Pomegranates and Myrrh

Thu 11 March • Iau 11 Mawrth

Palestine/2009/95 mins/subtitled/15. Dir: Najwa Najjar.
With Yasmine Al Massri, Ashraf Farah, Ali Suliman.

A big hit in the Arab world, this is a powerful, up-beat film about love under pressure, with the suffocating, all-pervasive influence of the Israeli occupation ever present in the background. Newly wed Kamar’s world is thrown into disarray when Israeli settlers seize their land and herhusband is imprisoned. She tries to balance her own desires with her duties as the wife of a prisoner: visiting Zaid in prison, running their business, keeping her mother-in-law happy and going to her dance class, the only place she can truly be herself. An inspiring tale about a freespirited woman who refuses to be defined by the realities of life in Palestine.

Winner Cinema in Motion Award San Sebastian
International Film Festival 2008

"accessible and remarkably well-made… tackling
large issues with skill and precision."
Screen International

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