Rana's Wedding
(2002)
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Rana's Wedding
(2002)
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Khalifa Natour | ... | |
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Ismael Dabbag | ... | |
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Walid Abed Elsalam | ... |
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Zuher Fahoum | ... |
Abu Siad, Rana's father
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Bushra Karaman | ... |
Rana's grandmother
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Georgina Asfour | ... |
Mary
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Manal Awad | ... |
Alia
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Nasrin Buqa'i | ... |
Samira
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Houda Imam |
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Sami Metwasi | ... |
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About a Palestinian girl of 17 who wants to get married to the man of her own choosing. Rana wakes up one morning to an ultimatum delivered by her father: she must either choose a husband from a preselected list of men, or she must leave Palestine for Egypt with her father by 4:00 that afternoon. With ten hours to find her boyfriend in occupied Jerusalem, she sneaks out of her father's house at daybreak to find her forbidden love Khalil (Natour). Written by [Excerpted from the MFA Film Calendar.]
This movie starts out a bit artsy, which I found off-putting, but it improved quickly. I found the pace of the movie slightly tedious, but this is necessary to show what Palestinian life is like (waiting hours at check-points to go anywhere is not unusual). Some parts of the movie were slightly confusing for a non-Palestinian audience to follow what was going on. The lead actress who plays Rana was very good. It is not a story about the Israeli occupation, it is a story about Rana, but it does show a lot of what it is like in Israeli occupied Palestine. If you don't mind that it isn't Hollywood, I would recommend this movie purely for the interesting setting.