A romantic drama about a working-class woman and her experiences traveling back home.
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Annemarie JacirWriter:
Annemarie Jacir
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Title: Salt of This Sea (2008)
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6 wins & 3 nominations.
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| Suheir Hammad | ... | Soraya | |
| Saleh Bakri | ... | Emad | |
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Riyad Ideis | ... | Marwan |
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Dana Drigov | ... | Airport Agent 1 |
| Edna Blilious | ... | Airport Agent 2 (Ilana) (as Edna Balilous) | |
| Ishai Golan | ... | Male Agent | |
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Hagar Lotem | ... | Young Agent |
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Renana Lotem | ... | Body Search Agent |
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Sylvie Wetz | ... | Corinne (as Sylvie Wetz) |
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Yahya Barakat | ... | Ziad |
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Khaled Hourani | ... | Khaled |
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Ismael Dabbag | ... | Bank Teller |
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Jack Saadeh | ... | Bank Manager |
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Iman Aoun | ... | Wealthy Landlord |
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Giras Abu Sabbah | ... | Cinematheque Bouncer |
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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 Written by JBA Production
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Release Date:
3 September 2008 (France) See more »Also Known As:
Bu Denizin Tuzu See more »Filming Locations:
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Budget:
EUR800,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$4,973, 15 August 2010Gross USA:
$11,662Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$736,502Company Credits
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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 .