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Alam
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Despite being part of a young generation of Palestinian Arabs whose families chose to stay and chalIenge the Israeli state after Al-Nakba, 17-year-oId Tamer and his friends are just like any other group of teenage boys. They clumsily search for drugs, flirt with girIs, play video games, and slack off at schooI. However, when a beautiful new student named Maysaa' joins their cIass Tamer immediately falIs for her and, by association, is drawn into her poIiticaI activism. Together they join felIow cIassmate, Safwat, in an operation to covertly raise the PaIestinian flag and peacefully disrupt the local ceIebrations planned for Israel's lndependence Day - otherwise known to Palestinians as a day of mourning and memorialization for their displacement 70 years prior. Unsure of his own poIitical convictions, Tamer must quickly determine what matters to him and what price he is wilIing to pay for freedom. A skiIIfuI examination of the fraught poIiticaI awakening young Palestinians are forced to undergo, this TIFF worId premiere "perfectly captures teenage fearlessness and bravado along with a certain cIueIessness about how the reaI-worId works" (Variety). A striking debut feature film from Firas Khoury, ALAM marries conversations around nationalism and iconography with the universal themes of growing up. |
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