Haifa
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Rashid Masharawi
Mohammad Bakri
Hiam Abbass
Ahmed Abu Sal'oum
Fadi El-goul
Khalid Awad
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Presented as a fictionalized documentary, a chronicle of the days leading up to the peace agreement signed by Yasser Arafat and Itzak Rabin in Washington and the mixed emotions that followed that historic event. The story centers around various everyday people who go about their business in a poor, dusty little town somewhere in the Gaza strip: Haifa nicknamed after the city of love and hope, comes and goes in a Palestinian refugee camp. Although he is everybody's fool, there are many things that only he knows. He is closely related to the family of Abu Said, a former policeman who finds new hope with the political developments. Oum Said, his wife, hangs her hope on the imminent release of their eldest son, Said, from jail. She tries to find him a bride to secure his future. Their youngest son, Siad, is cynical and rebellious. He refuses to believe in anything. Sabah, their twelve-year-old daughter sees the future through the eyes of a romantic, searching for what it might hold in store for her.
Director
Rashid Masharawi
Cast
Mohammad Bakri
Hiam Abbass
Ahmed Abu Sal'oum
Fadi El-goul
Khalid Awad
Nawal Zaqout
Areen Omari
Mariam El-hin
Crew
Gress Abdo
Jamal Afghani
Ayoub Akhrass
Henri Kuipers
Rashid Masharawi
Rashid Masharawi
Said Morad-sabrin
Areen Omari
Hadara Oren
Erik Schut
Roberto Van Eijden
Diana Van Gorp
Peter Van Vogelpoel
Edwin Verstegen
Film Details
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Released in United States 1996
Released in United States May 1996
Released in United States October 1996
Released in United States Winter January 1, 1996
Shown at Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard) May 9-20, 1996.
Shown at Montreal World Film Festival August 22 - September 2, 1996.
Released in United States 1996 (Shown at Montreal World Film Festival August 22 - September 2, 1996.)
Released in United States Winter January 1, 1996
Released in United States May 1996 (Shown at Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard) May 9-20, 1996.)
Released in United States October 1996 (Shown at AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival (Palestine) October 18-31, 1996.)
