Atash

original title:
Atash
other titles:
Thirst, (Atash - Durst), Tzimaon
country / year of production:
Israel , Palestine / 2004
original length:
110 min. , color
premiere:
F: 13 May 2004, Cannes Film Festival
genre:
drama
based on:
director:
Tawfik Abu Wael
film script:
Tawfik Abu Wael
producer:
Avi Kleinberger
cinematographer:
Asaf Sudri
editor:
Galit Shaked
composer:
Wisam M. Gibran
cast (role):
Hussein Yassin Mahajne , Amal Bweerat , Roba Blal , Jamila Abu Hussein , Ahmed Abed Elrani
more:
plot synopsis:
Gamila destroyed the reputation of her family when she started a love affair. Her father had to decide between the societal pressure of killing her and his love to his daughter. He decides to move away from everything. He and his son sell coal in a village nearby, but mother and daughter stay at home all the time. The secret unites the family, but it also destroys them, as there is still the thirst of life and the familiy members begin to challenge the authoritarian father.


keywords:
family on both sides of the front , women during wartime , desert , escape
war:
Arab-Israeli conflict
literature:
Wolffsohn, Michael: Wem gehört das Heilige Land? : Die Wurzeln des Streits zwischen Juden und Arabern, Aktualisierte Taschenbuchausg., 8. Aufl. - München [u.a.] : Piper, 2007.

Lybarger, Loren D.: Identity and religion in Palestine : the struggle between Islamism and secularism in the occupied territories, Princeton [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press, 2007.

Chiller-Glaus, Michael: Tackling the intractable : Palestinian refugees and the search for Middle East peace, Bern [u.a.] : Lang, 2007.
remarks:
Was filmed in Um El Fahm, Israel.

Won the Fipresci-award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004.
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