Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Najwa Najjar | 105 minutes

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Pomegranates and myrrh

Najwa Najjar 2009 fiction 1095 min.

Pomegranates and Myrrh is the debut feature length work by Najwa Najjar
(Yasmine's Song). Bold in subject matter and lyrical in style, the film
challenges a series of taboos while foregrounding the experiences of women
in the daily Palestinian struggle. Dancer Kamar's joyful wedding to Zaid is
followed almost immediately by Zaid's imprisonment in an Israeli jail for
refusing to relinquish his land. Freespirited Kamar wants to support her
husband but struggles with the idea of giving up dance and her own dreams.
Matters are complicated when a new dance instructor, Kais, returns after
many years in Lebanon and takes a special interest in Kamar. As she
struggles to deal with the weight of Kais's attention, the tension of
balancing her own desires with her duties as the wife of a prisoner are
brought to the surface. Meanwhile Zaid's family continues to fight against
confiscation of their lands. Kamar's life is thrown into turmoil as she
becomes increasingly attached to Kais, caught between her desire to dance
and her anxiety over breaking taboos over the role of a prisoner's wife's.

Trailer: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi1391591961?playlistId=tt1320282&ref_=tt_ov_vi

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