Alam. [videorecording (DVD)]

Alam. [videorecording (DVD)]

Publication Date
2024

Physical Description
1 videodisc (ca. 109 min.)

Subject Term
Drama films.
 
Romance films.
 
Arabic drama.
 
Foreign films.
 
Coming of age -- Drama.
 
Arab-Israeli conflict -- Drama.
 
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Genre
Historical films.

Additional Contributors
Bakri, Mahmood.

Performer
Mahmood Bakri.

Summary
Despite being part of a young generation of Palestinian Arabs whose families chose to stay and challenge the Israeli state after Al-Nakba, 17-year-old Tamer and his friends are just like any other group of teenage boys. They clumsily search for drugs, flirt with girls, play video games, and slack off at school. However, when a beautiful new student named Maysaa' joins their class Tamer immediately falls for her and, by association, is drawn into her political activism. Together they join fellow classmate, Safwat, in an operation to covertly raise the Palestinian flag and peacefully disrupt the local celebrations planned for Israel's Independence Day otherwise known to Palestinians as a day of mourning and memorialization for their displacement 70 years prior. Unsure of his own political convictions, Tamer must quickly determine what matters to him and what price he is willing to pay for freedom.

Language
Arabic

UPC
850047872289

General Note
DVD.
 
Unrated.

Language Note
Arabic audio; English subtitles.


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