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Last days in Jerusalem ( Palestine-France 2011 )

Color: Fiction, color, 77’

Direction: Tawfik Abu Wael

Screenplay: Tawfik Abu Wael

Director of Photography: Caroline Champetier

Sound: Aviv Aldema - Jean Christophe Juli

Music: Wisan Gibran

Editing: Guy Lecorne - Gabi Shinior

Cast: Lana Haj Yehya, Ali Badarni, Kais Nashef, Zuhaira Sabbagh, Huda Al-Iman, Hussen Mah’Ajna,A’mer Halehel

Production: SOPHIE DULAC PRODUCTIONS

Synopsis

Nour and Iyad, a Palestinian couple living in East Jerusalem, are preparing to move to Paris. He is a surgeon at the top of his game; she is a young actress, attractive and independent. On the way to the airport, a news report of a terrible accident means Iyad has to return to his hospital and delay their departure.

Réalisateur

Tawfik Abu Wael was born in a small Palestinian village in Israel near the border. He graduated from the University of Tel Aviv, where he studied filmmaking. From 1996 to 1998, he worked in the film archives of the University and taught theater in Jaffa. His major films: Waiting for Sallah Al Din (2001), Atash (2004)