Synopse
An affair of the heart becomes an affair of state: a Palestinian drama that takes the upheavals between Arabs and Jews to another, unusual level. Sex in the back of a truck – that just about sums up the affair between Sarah and Saleem. They meet several times a week, as soon as he's finished delivering his pastries and she's shut her café. Their affair is given added piquancy not just by the fact that they're both married, but because Sarah is Israeli and Saleem Palestinian. When the pair are spotted together, the intelligence services on both sides take an interest in Saleem, because Sarah's husband is no ordinary Israeli, but a high-ranking officer.
Regie
MUAYAD ALAYAN (*1985) studied film in San Francisco and is the co-founder of a collective of film creatives with offices in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. His debut feature Love, Theft and Other Entanglements had its premiere in 2015 in the Panorama section of the Berlinale.
Info
Original Title: Al-Taqareer Hawl Sarah Wa Saleem
Category: Feature
Section: Freihafen
Version & Subtitles: Arabic, English, Hebrew OV with German subtitles
Director: Muayad Alayan
Screenplay: Rami Alayan
Cast/Protagonists: Adeeb Safadi, Sivane Kretchner, Ishai Golan, Maisa Abd Elhadi
Production country: Mexico, Netherlands, Germany, Palestinian territories
Year of Production: 2018
Length: 127 min
Producer: Rebekka Garrido, Muayad Alayan, Rami Alayan, Hans de Wolf, Hanneke Niens, Rodrigo Iturralde, Georgina Gonzalez, Alejandro Duran, Amal Alayan
Production company: Palcine, Manderley Films, KeyFilm, Monofilms
Cinematography: Sebastian Bock
Editor: Sameer Qumsiyeh
Music: Charlie Rishmawi, Tarik Abu Salameh, Frank Gelat
Production Design: Bashar Hassuneh
World Sales: Heretic Outreach
Distributor: Missing Films
