Pomegranates and Myrrh ( Al-mor wa al rumman )

Pomegranates and Myrrh (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Al-mor wa al rumman
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Arabic ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Hebrew ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Sweden ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
95 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2008 and produced in:
Israel ( Africa, Middle East )

Directed By:
Najwa Najjar

Written By:
Najwa Najjar

Actors:
Hiam Abbass ..... Umm Habib
Walid Abdul Salam ..... Odeh
Valentina Abu-'Aksa ..... Mariam
Ahmad Abu Sal'oum ..... Abu Antar
Yosef Abu Wardeh ..... Yosef
Manal Awad ..... Ambar
Wardeh Dukwar ..... Yasmine
Yasmine Elmasri ..... Kamar
Ashraf Farah ..... Zaid
Wardeh Jubran ..... Yasmine
Samia Kuzmoz ..... Umm Zaid
Dorin Munawayyer ..... Rasha
Hussein Nakleh ..... Abu Saji
Lufuf Nuweiser ..... Issa
Ali Suliman ..... Kais
Lea Tsmeal ..... Leah

Synopsis:

Ramallah this decade. A free spirited woman dancer, Kamar, finds herself the wife of a prisoner, Zaid, and away from everything she loves until she returns to the dance, defying society's taboos. At the dance Kamar is confronted with Kais, a Palestinian returnee, who has taken Kamar's role as the head choreographer. Sparks fly between Kamar and Kais, creating more than a passionate, emotional dance for the both of them. Matters become even more complicated when Zaid's sentence is extended. At the same time the family's legal case against the land confiscation faces one obstacle after another and the villagers from the nearby villages are unable to reach the family's olive groves, placing the annual harvest and consequently the family's livelihood in danger. And Kamar's life is thrown into turmoil as she becomes increasingly attached to Kais, and caught in the midst of her desire to dance and breaking the family and society taboos of the prisoner's wife's role while life under occupation rages on.

Zaid and Kamar are Christians Atrabs and are married. Their happiness as newly weds does not last long though, for soon after the wedding a conflict about the confiscation of Zaid's olive farm and up with him being put in prison for an indefinite period of time. Kamar is a strong and modern woman, and to survive this difficult period, she decides to pick up her love for dancing again and joins a group of traditional Palestinian folk dance despite her family's disapproval. A new choreographer, the Palestinian returnee Kais, joins the dance group and brings a fresh breeze to the group and to Kamar. Her life is thrown into turmoil as she becomes increasingly attached to Kais and is cought between her desire to dance and not braking family and social taboos about the role of a prisoner's wife, while life under occupation rages on...

A free spirited Palestinian dancer becomes the wife of a prisoner.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 21 January, 2010.

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