Story
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.
Director
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.Trailer
Info
Al-Taqareer Hawl Sarah Wa Saleem
Fiction Feature
Arabic, Hebrew, English
Freihafen//FF2018
Palestine, Netherlands, Germany, Mexico
2018
127 min
OV with German subtitles
Muayad Alayan
Rami Alayan
Adeeb Safadi, Sivane Kretchner, Ishai Golan, Maisa Abd Elhadi
Muayad Alayan, Rami Alayan, Rebekka Garrido, Hans de Wolf, Hanneke Niens, Rodrigo Iturralde, Georgina Gonzalez, Alejandro Duran, Amal Alayan
Sebastian Bock
Sameer Qumsiyeh
Charlie Rishmawi, Tarik Abu Salameh, Frank Gelat
Bashar Hassuneh
Missing Films
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