Synopsis : Following the traumatising death of her mother in an accident, Rebecca moves with her father, Michael, to her grandfather's home in Jerusalem. Although disconsolate himself, Michael wants his daughter to begin a new life in the new city. But, clinging to the memories of her mother, the young girl cannot bring herself to let go of the past. The tussle between father and daughter comes to a head when Rebecca discovers another girl of her age living in the house.
Festival History : International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023
Director :
Muayad Alayan
Producer :
Muayad Alayan, Rami Alayan, Abeer Salman, Rachel Robey, Alastair Clark, Dorothe Beinemeier, Hanneke Niens, Giorgos Karnavas, Isabelle Georgeaux
Screenplay :
Rami Alayan, Muayad Alayan
DOP :
Sebastian Bock
Editor :
Rachel Erskine
Cast :
Johnny Harris, Miley Locke, Sheherazade Makhoul Farrell, Jiana Awwad, Rebecca Calder, Souad Faress, Mouna Hawa
Muayad Alayan is based in Jerusalem.His second feature film, 2018's The Reports On Sarah And Saleem, premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, where it won the Special Jury Prize of the Hivos Tiger Competition and the Hubert Bals Audience Award. His directorial feature debut Love, Theft, And Other
Entanglements premiered at the Berlinale Panorama in 2015 and went on to win two Best Arab Narrative Film
Awards, as well as being nominated for several First Feature Awards at the Berlinale, and others.