Salt of This Sea (2008)

A romantic drama about a working-class woman and her experiences traveling back home.

Director:

Annemarie Jacir

Writers:

Mamoun El Shinawi (poetry writer), Annemarie Jacir

Stars:

Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri, Riyad Ideis

5 wins & 3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Suheir Hammad	...	Soraya
Saleh Bakri	...	Emad
Riyad Ideis	...	Marwan
Dana Drigov	...	Airport Agent 1
Edna Blilious	...	Airport Agent 2 (Ilana) (as Edna Balilous)
Ishai Golan	...	Male Agent
Hagar Lotem	...	Young Agent
Renana Lotem	...	Body Search Agent
Sylvie Wetz	...	Corinne (as Sylvie Wetz)
Yahya Barakat	...	Ziad
Khaled Hourani	...	Khaled
Ismael Dabbag	...	Bank Teller
Jack Saadeh	...	Bank Manager
Iman Aoun	...	Wealthy Landlord
Giras Abu Sabbah	...	Cinematheque Bouncer

Storyline

Soraya, born in Brooklyn in a working class community of Palestinian refugees, discovers that her grandfather's savings were frozen in a bank account in Jaffa when he was exiled in 1948. Direct, stubborn, and determined to reclaim what is hers, she fulfills her life-long dream of "returning" to Palestine. Slowly she is taken apart by the reality around her and is forced to confront her own anger. She meets Emad, a young Palestinian whose ambition, contrary to hers, is to leave forever. Tired of the constraints that dictate their lives, they know in order to be free, they must take things into their own hands, even if it's illegal

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Plot Keywords:

palestine | f rated | male rear nudity | male nudity | israel | 

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Genres:

Drama | Romance

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Official Sites:

Facebook Page Official site

Country:

Palestine Belgium France Spain Switzerland

Language:

Arabic English Hebrew

Release Date:

3 September 2008 (France)

Also Known As:

Bu Denizin Tuzu

Filming Locations:

Palestine

Box Office

Budget:

€800,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$4,973, 15 August 2010

Gross USA:

$10,794

Company Credits

Production Co:

Augustus Film, Clarity Productions, JBA Production

Technical Specs

Runtime:

109 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Palestine's first feature film by a female director.

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Soundtracks

Bahriyya
Composed by Marcel Khalife / (p) Nagam Records
Reinterpreted and Performed by Tamer Nafar, Suhell Nafar (aka Suheil Nafar), Mahmud Jreri (Dam, aka DAM) and with Kayvon Sarfejooy (DJ K-Salaam) & Nick Phillips (Beatnick)
Concept by Annemarie Jacir, under the direction of Kamran Rastegar

User Reviews

unjustified Nostalgia

very week script , politically oriented in a cheap direct way . unjustified overwhelmed Nostalgia ( can anyone feels crazy homesick to a place he never lived in and just heard about it from the news and the grandparent's stories ?? ) , actually the writer didn't know how could he tell the story so he simply stuffed his script with many symbols and boring repeated nostalgic ale motives to the extend that that rhythm was terribly agonizing in the last 3rd of the film . the acting was really good specially Suheir Hammad who was acting in a very authentic style . the starting sequence was strong and succeeded to arouse Tension which was unfortunately totally lost .