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Darling, Something's Wrong with Your Head (2024)

85 min - Romance, Drama, Social conflict, Palestinian struggle against the Zionist entity (Israel) - 7 November 2024
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“Darling, Something's Wrong with Your Head" a story of forbidden love, is the first fiction feature set in Gaza in over 15 years. The film is a modern re-telling of the legendary tragic romance 'Majnun Layla', which was set in seventh century Arabia, when a poet named Qays fell in love with Layla. Driven by the intensity of his passion, Qays was known as 'Majnun Layla', which translates as 'madman for Layla'. In the contemporary setting, two students in the West Bank are forced to return home to Gaza, where their love defies tradition...

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Pomegranates and Myrrh

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Al-mor wa al rumman (2009)

95 min - Drama, Fiction, - 1 February 2009
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A free spirited woman dancer, Kamar, finds herself the lonely wife of a prisoner, Zaid, and away from everything she loves until she returns to the dance, defying societys taboos. At the dance Kamar is confronted with Kais, a Palestinian returnee. 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...

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