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‘Wedding in Ramallah’: first Australian film on PalestinePalestinian-Australian director Sherine Salama’s documentary film A Wedding in Ramallah was screened at the 49th Sydney Film Festival.The 90-minute documentary is considered the first Australian film that tackles the Palestinian issue, through offering remarkable insight into the lives of ordinary Palestinians. Even in the midst of intense political conflicts people try to get on with their lives. So it is with Mariam and Bassam, a Palestinian couple who met during the comparatively peaceful summer of 2000. This wonderfully observant film follows their relationship from courtship, to marriage and beyond. Bassam, a telephone repairman in Cleveland, returns to Palestine to find a “home-made bride.” He quickly meets and marries the younger Mariam but leaves her in Palestine with his family. Soon afterwards, a new intifada takes place and violence erupts throughout Palestine. Life in wartime is brilliantly evoked: people talk on cell phones, quarrel and cook dinner while tanks are shelling buildings a few blocks away from Bassam’s family home. After many months, Bassam and another married Palestinian living in America return to see their wives. Eventually, Bassam is able to procure a visa for Mariam, but she soon discovers that life in exile isn’t a panacea either. This charming film says much about love, courtship and the roles of women and men in Palestinian society, while touching on the problems the Palestinians have with the Other: the Israelis that control their lives – cedebb.com Egyptian Box Office Receipts to Fuel IntifadaThe team behind a new Egyptian movie, Ashab Wala Business (Friends or Business), has decided to contribute a day’s box office revenues each week to the Palestinian cause.Medhat Saleh and Anoshka …Stars of the Police BlotterSingers Medhat Saleh and Anoshka have inked an agreement with director Musa’d Foudah to costar in the new comedy series “Mawe’d Ma’a Al Shuhrah,”(Appointment With Fame)8- Meet The ParentsTagline: First Comes Love, Then Comes Interrogation.Greg Focker, Ben Stiller is head over heels Lebanese Films Convey Arab Suffering and Dreams to AmericaLebanese director John Shamoun and Palestinian director May al Masri conveyed Arab dreams and suffering to the heart of the US through the screening of the films in Boston.American Film about Iraq Shot in MoroccoShooting of the American TV film Life From Baghdad has recently started in the Moroccan Cities of Warzazat and Casablanca.Kevin Costner, Fidel Castro may Watch ‘13 Days’ Together in HavanaKevin Costner is expected to arrive here for a screening of "13 Days," his movie on the 1962 Cuban missile crisis - which he may be watching with President Fidel Castro.Steven Spielberg to Shoot Film on Palestinian UprisingThe renowned Jewish American director Steven Spielberg announced in Los Angeles that his new film will tackle the Palestinian uprising describing the sad history of holocaust as being repeated these days in Palestine. |
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