Another View 2016 / Sufat Chol / Israel 2016
It seems life in a Bedouin village in Southern Israel is still governed by the same age-old rules. Jalila is suffering the indignity of her husband’s forthcoming marriage to a second, much younger woman, but she also wants to put a stop to a relationship her daughter Layla is having with someone unsuitable. Except that Layla sees the world differently and wants to make her own decisions regarding her future.
Wedding preparations are underway in a Bedouin village in Southern Israel. It’s an extremely awkward situation for Jalila, because her husband is about to marry a second, much younger wife. She feels humiliated but refuses to submit, choosing instead to preserve her pride and silently rebel against her situation from within. She cannot openly oppose tradition and it would be inadvisable to elicit the disapproval of those around her. Layla, her adolescent daughter, sees things differently. Her mother has just found out about her secret relationship with student Anuar, a liaison that is entirely unacceptable in their community since the boy isn’t from their circle, and she rails against her daughter to put a stop to it. Layla, of course, unlike her mother, believes that the only way to get ahead in life is to resolutely confront everything that gets in the way. It’s as if the girl were openly expressing her mother’s hidden defiance, but both women must find their way to one another, however difficult that may be, and much of what they believed in is called into question.
Zdena Škapová
87 min / Color, DCP
Director Elite Zexer
/ Screenplay Elite Zexer
/ Dir. of Photography Shai Peleg
/ Music Ran Bagno
/ Editor Ronit Porat
/ Art Director Nir Adler
/ Producer Haim Mecklberg, Estee Yacov-Mecklberg
/ Production 2-Team Productions
/ Cast Lamis Ammar, Ruba Blal-Asfour, Haitham Omari, Khadija Alakel, Jalal Masarwa
/ Sales Beta Cinema GmbH
Elite Zexer (b. 1980, Netanya, Israel) studied film direction at Tel Aviv University’s Department of Film and Television. Her short feature Take Note (2008) won Best Fiction Film at the International Student Film Festival in Tel Aviv, and her 12-minute Tasnim (2012), whose heroine is the ten-year-old Bedouin girl of the film’s title, was screened and acclaimed at various festivals (Clermont-Ferrand, Oberhausen, Palm Springs, São Paulo, Athens). She also shot the short documentary Fire Department (2010), detailing the daily routine of a fire station in a Jewish Orthodox part of the Tel Aviv agglomeration. She spent four years doing background research before completing her feature film debut, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2016.
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