Basic Info
- Release Date:
- Palestine, May 2008: Ramallah-Cannes Party: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=13755928441#/event.php?eid=13755928441
- Genre:
- For festivals and those interested in screening the film, please contact the distributor: pricher@pyramidefilms.com and info@philistinefilms.org or call +33.1.42.96.02.20
- Studio:
- French Title: Sel de la Mer
Detailed Info
- Website:
- http://www.philistinefilms.org
- Starring:
- Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri, Riyad Ideis
- Screenplay By:
- Annemarie Jacir
- Directed By:
- Annemarie Jacir
- Produced By:
- JBA Production
- Awards:
- • CANNES - OFFICIAL SELECTION
Un Certain Regard, 2008
www.festival-cannes.com/en/article/56057.html
• FIRST PRIZE - BEST FILM
Sguardi Altrove Film Festival, Italy 2009
• FIPRESCI PRIZE - INTERNATIONAL CRITICS AWARD
International Federation of Film Critics, 2008
• SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
Osians Asian & Arab Film Festival, 2008
• BEST FIRST FILM
Traverse City Film Festival, 2009
• SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
Oran International Festival of Arab Cinema, 2009
• RANDA CHAHAL PRIZE
Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage, 2008
• BEST SCREENPLAY
Dubai International Film Festival, 2008
• BEST OF FEST SELECT
Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival 2009
• AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD
Houston Palestine Film Festival, 2009
• AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD - BEST FEATURE
Chicago Palestine Film Festival, 2009
• BEST FILM
Cairo Refugee Film Festival, 2009
• BEST ACTRESS (Suheir Hammad)
Amal EuroArab Film Festival, 2009
• AUDIENCE CHOICE RUNNER UP
Toronto Palestine Film Festival, 2008
•PALESTINE'S OFFICIAL OSCAR ENTRY
FOR BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM, 2008
• SOPADIN FINALIST
Grand Prix Best Screenplay, 2007
• CINEMA IN MOTION PRIZE
San Sebastian Film Festival, 2007
Select Festivals:
•London Int. Film Festival -– Official Selection
•Tribeca Film Festival – Official Selection
•Melbourne Int. Film Festival – Official Selection
•Pusan Int. Film Festival – Official Selection
•Rio de Janeiro Int. Film Festival – Official Selection
•Festival Nouveau Cinema MontrÈal – Official Selection
•Thessaloniki IFF – Official Selection
•Palm Springs IFF – Official Selection
•Durban Int. Film Festival – Official Selection
*** - Plot Outline:
- 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 internal anger. She meets Emad, a young Palestinian whose ambition, contrary to hers, is to leave... (read more)
















