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Shooting on location in
East Jerusalem, Ramallah and at checkpoints in-between, Palestinian
director Hany Abu-Assad (Ford Transit) sees the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict through the eyes of a young woman who, with only ten hours
to marry, must negotiate her way around
roadblocks, soldiers, stonethrowers, overworked officials ... and
into the heart of an elusive lover.
This timely feature that explores love among the ruins of an
occupied territory was presented with the Human Rights Watch
International Film Festival's 2003 Nestor Almendros Prize for
courage in filmmaking.
According to Abu-Assad, "When the abnormalities of barriers and
occupation become an everyday reality, normal things like love and
marriage turn into fiction. This is life in Palestine right now. I
wanted to challenge it through cinema."
Winner of the Best Actress award at the 2002 Marrakesh International
Film Festival (for Clara Khoury's affecting performance), Rana's
Wedding premiered during the 2002 International Critic's Week at
Cannes and has been a festival favorite in Palm Springs, Montreal,
Rio de Janeiro, Cairo and London.
Type:
Feature Film
Director:
Hany Abu-Assad
Year:
2002
Time:
90 min
Produced by:
Augustus Film (in association with the Palestinian Ministry of
Culture)
Language:
In Arabic with English subtitles
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