Origin: Palestine | Documentary | Director: Lana Hijazi and Yousef Atwa | 13 minutes

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Salha

by Lana Hijazi and Yousef Atwa, documentary 13 mins. 2016 .
Production of Shashat Women Festival.

Salha take us to Wadi Abu Hindi to meet the young Bedouin girl Salha Hamadeen who won in 2012 the “Hans Christian Anderson International Prize” for her children story “Hantoush.” In “Hantoush” she tells how she imagined escaping her dismal and stark reality in Wadi Abu Hindi by imagining that her young sheep, Hantoush, grows wings. Both of them fly to Madrid to meet Lionel Messi, the famous soccer player, who asks Salha to stay in Madrid. But according to Salha, she wonders who will then take care of the sheep and make the cheese, the source of their livelihood, as her father is in prison?

Trailer: http://www.shashat.org/en/video/2/5/Salha---Trailer

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