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Salt of this Sea
ANNEMARIE JACIR
In Arabic, English, and Hebrew with English subtitles
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1-800-955-5566
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Salt of this Sea
ANNEMARIE JACIR
In Arabic, English, and Hebrew with English subtitles
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An attractive young couple knocks over a Ramallah bank and takes to the road, but this isn't the Palestinian Bonnie and Clyde. Brooklyn-born Soraya (Suheir Hammad) just takes the money her grandfather deposited in the bank, pre-1948. And she and new boyfriend Emad (The Band's Visit star Saleh Bakri) aren't looking for trouble when they crash the Israeli border; they just want to see the places their grandparents lived. In Soraya's case, that's Jaffa, where the old family house now belongs to a young Israeli woman with "Peace Now" coffee cups. In Emad's case, home is al-Dawayima, the site of an infamous massacre of Palestinians. Humorous in places, Salt of This Sea is also passionately committed. "They won't give us the 'right of return,' so I took it," explains Soraya, and her attitude mirrors that of writer-director Annemarie Jacir.—Mark Jenkins