YADON ILAHEYYA

Elia SULEIMAN
  • 2002
  • In Competition
  • Feature Films
Jury Prize 2002

In Nazareth, under a guise of banal normalcy, the town embraces folly.
Under pressure from his failing business, a man takes matters into his own hands and tries to break a chain reaction of petty feuds. He breaks down himself. The man is ES’ father.
A love story takes place between a Palestinian man living in Jerusalem and a Palestinian woman from Ramallah. The man – ES – shifts between his ailing father and his love life, trying to keep both alive.
Because of the political situation, the woman’s freedom of movement ends at the Israeli army checkpoint between the two cities. Barred from crossing, the lovers’ intimate encounters take place on a deserted lot right beside the checkpoint.
The lovers are unable to exempt reality from occupation.
They are unable to preserve their intima

Directed by : Elia SULEIMAN
Year of production: 2002
Country: France, Morocco, Germany
Duration: 92

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24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE

Michael WINTERBOTTOM

ABOUT SCHMIDT

Alexander PAYNE

CHIHWASEON

Kwon-Taek IM

DEMONLOVER

Olivier ASSAYAS

KEDMA

Amos GITAI

L’ADVERSAIRE

Nicole GARCIA

LE FILS

Jean-Pierre DARDENNE, Bruce BROWN

MIES VAILLA MENNEISYYTTÄ

(THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST) Aki KAURISMAKI

PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE

Paul Thomas ANDERSON

REN XIAO YAO

(UNKNOWN PLEASURES) JIA Zhang-Ke

RUSSIAN ARK

Alexander SOKOUROV

SPIDER

David CRONENBERG

TEN

Abbas KIAROSTAMI

THE PIANIST

Roman POLANSKI