Rana's Wedding by Hany Abu-Hassad
(Palestine/Netherlands/United Arab Emirates, 2002, 90m)

Comments by Olímpia Pinto

Storyline: Directed by Hany Abu-Hassad (Palestinian film director from Israel), with script of Liana Badr (Palestinian writer) and Ihab Lamey, this film is about Rana, a Palestinian 17 years old girl of Jerusalem, who one morning received an ultimatum from her father: either she chooses a husband from a list of suitors that he has prepared or, at 4 pm of that same day, she will have to leave Palestine and ho to Egypt. Rana has only ten hours to find her forbidden love, Khalil, in an occupied Jerusalem.

Hany Abu-Hassad (1961): Palestinian film director born in Israel who emigrated to the Netherlands in 1980. He directed the famous Paradise Now (2006) about two Palestinian men who staged a suicide attack.

Liana Badr (1950): Palestinian writer (novels, short stories, children books, film scripts). She was born in Jerusalem and has spent most of her life in several countries of the Arab World (Lebanon, Syria, Jordan). In 1994, he settled in Ramallah.

Ihab Lamey: Egyptian film director and writer. He obtained his undergraduate degree at the Higher Institute Of Cinema of Cairo in 1955 and has directed several films and documentaries.

 

Film with English subtitles.