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HABIBI RASAK KHARBAN - HABIBI
Palestine, Holland, Arab Emirates, United States 2011, 78', HD, colour
directed by Susan Youssef
screenplay
SUSAN YOUSSEF
cinematography
P.J. RAVAL
editing
SUSAN YOUSSEF
MAN KIT LAM
sound
LOUIS STORME
music
MENNO CRUIJSEN
art direction
MAN KIT LAM
costumes
HAMADA ATALLAH
cast
MAISA ABDELHADI (Layla)
KAIS NASHEF (Qays)
YUSSUF ABU-WARDA (Al Mahdi)
AMER KHALIL (Qays' Father)
NAJWA MUBARKI (Layla's Mother)
JIHAD AL-KHATTIB (Walid)
ADHAM NU'MAN (Rabie)
WARD SHWEKH (Salem)
producer
SUSAN YOUSSEF
production
S.Y. FILMS
co-production
DUBAI ENTERTAINMENT
MEDIA ORGANIZATION in association with ENJAAZ
in association with
IDIOMS FILM
world sales
ENTERTAINMENT ONE
Tel. +1 416 6462400 - Fax +1 416 9795824
cmickie@entonegroup.com - www.entertainmentonegroup.com
www.habibithefilm.com
press office
Stephen Lan
Lan.Stephen@sympatico.ca
European cell: +49-
172-2006686
www.StephenLan.com
synopsis
When Israel puts Gaza under full closure in 2001, two young lovers studying at a university in the West Bank are forced to return home. Their relationship is hindered by Layla’s family, who wants her to marry another man. Qays, however, does not give up and graffitis love poetry to her all over the walls of their town, causing scandal and provoking the rage of Layla’s brother, who, having reached Hamas in the meantime, starts a hunt for him. “I first visited Gaza in 2002 when I was shooting my documentary FORBIDDEN TO WANDER. It was then I saw children acting out the romance Majnun Layla. [...] It was also at this time that Mohammed, a local theater director, joined me to help shoot my documentary. I fell in love with him. The experience of seeing the children's performance of Majnun Layla, and of finding love in Gaza, compelled me to retell the legend in the setting of modern-day Gaza.” (Susan Youssef)
Director Susan Youssef uses the 7th-century Arabic romance “Majnun Layla” as a vehicle to narrate a classic story of forbidden love in a contemporary Gaza. HABIBI, a first feature made entirely through grants and donations, is a powerful portrait of a broken society providing an accurate depiction of an evolving Palestinian society. Compelling in its simplicity, engaging in its realism, it succeeds in the very difficult task of delineating with precise subtlety the anguish of the main characters as their own environment becomes a vicious entrapment. (Elena Manrique).
>Click here< to listen to the audio introduction to the film with exclusive extras, courtesy by Subti
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