Ruba Blal

Forgiveness tells the story of David Adler, a 20-year old American-Israeli who decides to move back to Israel, only to find himself committed to a mental institution that sits on the ruins of a Palestinian village called Deir Yassin

With the story of the Israel/Palestine-conflict as a contextual backdrop, we are shown and told the story of four palestinian women. It's all centered around Dar Al-Tifl - a school and home for palestinian orphans in Israel. Miral - one of the girls - has to carry the weight of her people, her history and her family on her shoulders, as she grows up with terrorism, Intifada, civil war and political conflict. Can she maintain a individual ambition in all this?

Jordan, 1967: displaced to a refugee camp after the occupation of their West Bank village, an eleven-year old boy and his mother enact the emancipating dream that every refugee has imagined countless times, in Annemarie Jacir's passionate and moving follow-up to her prize-winning debut Salt of This Sea. (tiff.net)

When their entire lives shatter, two Bedouin women struggle to change the unchangeable rules, each in her own individual way. (imdb)

A father and his estranged son must come together to hand deliver his daughter's wedding invitations to each guest as per local Palestinian custom, in this rousing family drama from Annemarie Jacir. (imdb)

Based on the true events which led to the outbreak of war in Gaza 2014. (imdb)