LE SEL DE LA MER (Palestine, 2008)


Couleur – 109’
Direction: Annemarie Jacir
Screenplay: Annemarie Jacir
Director of Photography: Benoit Chamaillard
Sound: Eric Vaucher, Peter Flamman
Music: Kamran Rastegar
Editing: Michèle Hubinon
Cast: Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri,
Productio : JBA PRODUCTION, PHILISTINE FILMS,
THELMA FILM, TARANTULA, MEDIAPRO,
CLARITY WORLD FILMS (UK)



Synopsis

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. Stubborn, passionate 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. In Palestine’s first feature by a Palestinian female director, we follow the story of two refugees today in search of their own freedom. (Cannes Official Selection 2008) (International Critics Award FIPRESCI Prize, Osians 2008)


Le réalisateur

Annemarie Jacir has been working in independent film since 1994 and has written, directed, and produced a number of films including «A Post Oslo History» (1998), «The Satellite Shooters» (2001) and «Like twenty impossibles» (2003). She has taught courses at Columbia, Bethlehem and Birzeit University. She also works as a freelance editor and cinematographer and teaches cinema to children in two refugee camps. «Salt of this Sea» (2008) is her first feature film, and her second work to debut at Cannes Film Festival. Having been banned from returning to Palestine, she now lives in Jordan. She is in development on a new film


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