Salt of This Sea
Organisation: Institut français
Time: 21 May 2010 6:10pm - 30 May 2010 6:10pm
Place: Institut français, 17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT
Institut français presents
Salt of This Sea
A Film by Annemarie Jacir
Palestine/France/Belgium/Spain/Switzerland | 2008 | col | 109 mins | dir. Annemarie Jacir, with Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri | cert. 12A | exclusive release.
The first feature film by a Palestinian woman, Salt of This Sea tells the story of Soraya, a third-generation, working-class Palestinian refugee living in Brooklyn, New York. Soraya discovers that her grandfather’s savings have been frozen in a bank account in Jaffa since he was expelled in 1948. Determined to reclaim what is theirs, she fulfills her life-long dream to return to Palestine, but is rebuffed by the bank. It is then she meets Emad, a young Palestinian whose ambition, in contrast to hers, is to leave Palestine forever. Tired of the constraints that dictate their lives, Soraya and Emad know that in order to be free, they must take things into their own hands, even it means breaking the law...
21 - 30 MAY 2010 | selected times
Ciné lumière, Institut français, 17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT
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