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VILLA TOUMA
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Completed - ARABIC - First film, Drama - 85 minutes

Log Line

When the outside world is not worth facing, locking yourself in is the easiest option

Year of production : 2014

Director(s) : Suha ARRAF
Writer(s) : Suha ARRAF
Cast : Maria ZREIK, Cherien DABIS, Ula TABARI, Nisreen FAOUR

Producer(s) : Suha ARRAF (Bailasan)

Synopsis

Three Palestinian Christian sisters who’ve lost their land and status due to the 1967 war with Israel aren’t able to face the painful new reality that’s been imposed on them, so they lock themselves away in their big house and continue to live in a time warp.

Within the villa’s crumbling walls, the sisters live in their own personal bubbles, each with her own secrets, dreams and failed love story, hidden behind a mask of manners and propriety.

When their young niece, Badia, walks into their lives, she challenges their stifling routine and turns their world upside down, obliterating the deadly silence they lived in

Production

Country(ies) : ISRAEL, PALESTINE

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Festivals and Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2014 Discovery
BFI London FF 2014 Journey
Goteborg IFF 2014
BFI London FF 2014
Venice - Biennale 2014 (International Critics' Week)
Hamburg 2014
Reykjavik 2014
Bangkok Festival 2014
Valladolid 2014
Warsaw FF 2014
Int'l Antalya Golden Orange 2014
haifa 2014
Int'l Film Fest. Of india, Goa 2014
AFI Fest 2014
cinemed 2014
Philadelphia International Film Festival 2014
Santa Barbara IFF 2015
Palm Spring Fest. 2015
Pune International Film Festival 2015


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