Alam
by Firas Khoury
France / Saudi Arabia / Tunisia / Qatar / Palestine, 2022
streaming regions: GLOBAL with some exceptions
synopsis
In a Palestinian town, Tamer and his friends lead a typical high school student’s life until the arrival of the beautiful Maysaa’. To please her, Tamer agrees to take part in a mysterious flag operation on the eve of Israel’s Independence Day which is a mourning day for Palestinians.
about the director
Firas Khoury is Palestinian scriptwriter and director. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in cinema. Khoury has several short films to his credit; among them are the award-winning movies Seven Days in Deir Bulus (2007) and Yellow Mums (2010). These films were broadcast in festivals around the world but also on TV channels, including Arte and VVD. In 2019 he finished his next short, Maradona’s Legs, which has received the Robert Bosch Stiftung Film Prize that year and also the support of Berlin Medienboard. The movie was shown at the Palm Springs Film Festival.
