简介:Fourteen-year-old Farha dreams of attending school in the city with her best friend Farida, but she knows that, as the daughter of the mukhtar (the head of the village, played by Ashraf Barhom), she is in for an uphill battle against tradition. Girls Farha’s age are expected to marry. It’s 1948, and British control over Palestine is coming to an end. What Farha and her father do not yet know is that forced displacements are already happening across the region. When Israeli bombs reach their village, Farha’s father locks her in the cellar of their home, promising to return as soon as he can. While Farha waits and watches through the cracks, the village she was so excited to leave is transformed to ruin, threatening an end to the future she had planned and leaving only trace memories in its wake. A dauntless and compelling feature debut by Jordanian filmmaker Darin J. Sallam, Farha captures both the isolating terrors of war and the lingering beauty that can colour recollections of dispossession — a mental record of the last laugh shared, the faint smell of freedom before the void of exile. An impressive lead performance from newcomer Karam Taher punctuates catastrophic loss with uncompromising determination. In this remarkable and devastating story, Sallam’s resonant directorial voice presents a penetrating perspective on the Nakba and returns the gaze to a cultural legacy in the midst of a global resurgence.
简介:At the request of their daughter, a separated couple has to live together for thirty days after the ex-wife comes from a long psychiatric hospitalization.
简介:爱丽丝(邦尼·亨特 Bonnie Hunt 饰)和乔治(查尔斯·格罗丁 Charles Grodin 饰)带着三个孩子瑞思(尼科洛·汤姆 Nicholle Tom 饰),泰德(Christopher Castile 饰)与艾米丽(Sarah Rose Karr 饰)住在城郊的大房子里,生活过得平静而又幸福,直到一天,一只可怜又可爱的流浪狗出现在了纽顿家门口。在三个孩子的苦苦恳求下,小狗成为了纽顿家新的一员,取名贝多芬。
时间流逝,长大的不仅仅是纽顿家的三个孩子,还有贝多芬,在短短几个月的时间里,原本娇小可爱的贝多芬已然成为了一只庞然大物,在不断制造麻烦的同时,贝多芬也为纽顿一家带来了深深的快乐。贝多芬的存在吸引了兽医瓦尼克(迪恩·琼斯 Dean Jones 饰)的注意,邪恶的医生开始想尽千方百计,企图将贝多芬据为己有。
简介:Eric Bross directs Public Affairs from a screenplay by Tom Cudworth about a campaign aide who must fight for his life after he sleeps with the wife of a presidential candidate.