Info
Synopsis
Cast
Awards
Genre
- historical family drama
Countries of Production
- Germany / Cyprus / Jordan / Palestine / Greece / Qatar / Saudi Arabia
Language
- Arabic / English / Hebrew
World premiere
- 25th January 2025 – Sundance Film Festival
German cinema release
- 20th November 2025
a production by
- Pallas Film, Twenty Twenty Vision, Displaced Pictures and Nooraluna Productions
in co-production with
- AMP Filmworks, ZDF/Arte
with the support of
- Eurimages – The Council of Europe, MDM – Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, MBB – Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Cyprus Deputy Ministry of Culture
- OSN+, Media City Qatar, Medan Productions, Baird Films, National Creative Industries Group, Ten X Group, Film Clinic, Doha Film Institute
World Sales
- The Match Factory
Distribution
- X Verleih
In the Occupied West Bank of the 1980s, a Palestinian teenager is swept into a protest that changes the course of his family’s life. Reeling from its aftermath, his mother, Hanan, shares the story that led them to that fateful moment. Spanning seven decades, this epic drama traces the hopes and heartaches of one uprooted family, revealing not only the scars of displacement, but the unbreakable spirit of survival.
Salim
- Saleh Bakri
Hanan
- Cherien Dabis
Sharif (1948)
- Adam Bakri
Sharif (1978)
- Mohammad Bakri
Noor (teenager)
- Mohammad Abed Elrahman
Noor (child)
- Sanad Alkabarete
Salim (child)
- Salah Aldeen Mai
Munira
- Maria Zreik
Ari
- Dominik Maringer
Written by
- Cherien Dabis
Directed by
- Cherien Dabis
Producers
- Thanassis Karathanos, Cherien Dabis, Martin Hampel, Karim Amer
- Co-producers: Janine Teerling, Marios Piperides
Director of photography
- Christopher Aoun
Editor
- Tina Baz
Set design
- Bashar Hassuneh
Casting
- Bissan Tibi, Waseem Khair
Music
- Amine Bouhafa
Costume
- Zeina Soufan
Makeup & Hair
- Jana Lindner, Farah Jadanne
SFX Makeup
- Tamar Aviv
- Sundance FF
- San Francisco IFF
- Sydney FF
- Karlovy Vary IFF
- Shanhai IFF - Belt and Road Film Week
- Galway Film Fleadh
- Malaysia IFF
- Arab FF of Brazil
- Telluride FF
- Helsinki IFF
- Toronto Palestine FF
- FF Hamburg
- Reykjavik IFF
- Zürich FF
- Jakarta World Cinema
- Hamptons IFF
- IndieCork FF
- Adelaide FF
- Hong Kong Asian FF
- Cambridge FF
- Antalya Golden Orange FF
- Thessaloniki IFF
- Seville European FF
- Marrakech IFF
- Red Sea IFF
- Gøteborg IFF
- Jordan's entry – OSCAR™ 2026
- New York Women in Film & Television Award / Hamptons IFF
- Golden Gate Award & Audience Award / San Francisco IFF
- GIO Audience Award / Sydney FF
- Audience Award / Thessaloniki IFF
- Best Director / Seville European Film Festival
