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WEDDING IN RAMALLAH, A
Year: 2002
Classification: M
Runtime: 90 min
Produced In: Australia
Directed By: Sherine Salama
Produced By: Sherine Salama
Language: English subtitles
A Wedding in Ramallah is an engrossing film exploring domestic life in Palestine during a time of war, and the experiences of Palestinians who manage to emigrate overseas.
From acclaimed filmmaker Sherine Salama, the story follows a marriage between an American-based Palestinian man (Bassam Abed) and a young woman (Mariam), with a traditional village upbringing. Bassam works as a telephone repairman in Cleveland, Ohio, and returns to the West Bank town of Ramallah to find a wife. A few weeks later the two are married and we are offered unique insight into the arranged wedding. The film subsequently follows their desperate attempts to secure a visa to America for Mariam, and her resulting life in Cleveland, languishing in an apartment with no friends
or support.
"Australian film maker Sherine Salama, becomes something of a confidant to her subjects, and brings us disconcertingly close to them: we become privy to gossip, family rows, hasty confidences, moments of frustration, occasions of high expectation and intimacy." - Philippa Hawker, The Age.
"Utterly involving, Salama's film foregrounds a slyly feminist view of life under occupation - methodically disempowered men can make methodically lousy husbands - while keeping a sympathetic eye out for the ploys with which pride can withstand the most outrageous indignity." - Bill Gosden, New Zealand Film Festival.
WINNER!
- Best Direction in a Documentary - AFI Awards 2002
- Best Documentary - AFI Awards 2002
- Best Documentary - Australian Film Critics' Circle Award - 2002
- FIPRESCI (International Critics' Award)! - Melbourne International Film Festival - 2002
- Best Documentary - Calgary International Film Festival - 2002
- Grand Prix - Cinema du Reel
- Grand Jury Prize - Los Angeles International Film Festival
- Special Jury Prize - Full Frame Film Festival
- Best General Documentary (Social & Political Issues) ATOM Awards
Produced and directed by Sherine Salama
Camera and sound - Sherine Salama
with Catherine Marciniak, Tommi Streiff, Chris West
Editors - Andrew Arestides and Andrea Lang
Production manager - Amos Cohen
Production co-ordinators - Mohammed Assad (Ramallah), Lucille Carra (New York)
Produced with the assistance of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Developed in association with the Australian Film Commission
Financed with the assistance of the Australian Film Finance Corporation
(c) 2002, Habibi Films Pty Ltd
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