ZAYTOUN

Saturday – August 24th, 2013
8:30 pm – Open Air Cinema

ZAYTOUN

Audience Toronto International Film Festival, 3rd Place, Canada

Fiction / UK, Israel, France 2012 / Arabic, Hebrew, English / English subtitles / 110 min

Director: Eran Riklis
Writer: Nader Rizq
Producers: Gareth Unwin, Fred Ritzenberg
Cinematographer: Dan Lausten, Yael Aviv
Editor: Hervé Schneid
Composer: Cyril Morin
Sound Design: Ashi Milo
Costume Designer: Hamada Atalla
Make Up Artist: Ziv Katanov
Executive Producers: Simon Olswang, Albert Martinez Martin
Cast: Stephen Dorff, Abdallah El Akal, Alice Taglioli, Laai Noufi, Tarik Copti, Ali Suliman, Ashraf Barhom, Mira Awad, Ashraf Farah, Joni Arbid

During the 1982 Lebanon War Israeli fighter pilot Yoni (Stephen Dorff) is shot down over Beirut and captured by the Palestine Liberation Organization. Fahed (Abdallah El Akal), a precocious young Palestinian refugee who is angered by the death of his father in an Israeli air attack, agrees to help Yoni escape and lead him out of the city if Yoni will get him over the border and back to his family’s ancestral village. As they embark on a hazardous road trip across the war-ravaged country, Yoni and Fahed move from suspicion and mutual antagonism to a tentative camaraderie as they make their way closer to the place they both call home.

Saturday – August 24th, 2013
8:30 pm – Open Air Cinema

In case of rain the film will be screened in Filmrauschpalast.

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