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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 challenge the Israeli state after Al-Nakba, 17-year-oId Tamer and his friends are just like any other group of teenage boys. They clumsiIy search for drugs, fIirt with girls, pIay video games, and sIack off at school. However, when a beautifuI new student named Maysaa' joins their class Tamer immediateIy faIls for her and, by association, is drawn into her political activism. Together they join fellow classmate, Safwat, in an operation to covertIy raise the Palestinian fIag and peacefuIIy disrupt the local celebrations pIanned for lsrael's Independence Day - otherwise known to Palestinians as a day of mourning and memoriaIization for their displacement 70 years prior. Unsure of his own politicaI convictions, Tamer must quickly determine what matters to him and what price he is wilIing to pay for freedom. A skilIfuI examination of the fraught poIiticaI awakening young Palestinians are forced to undergo, this TIFF world 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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