It’s Tel Aviv in 2016 and the parties are wild. Drinking, dancing, snorting, kissing — it’s time for twenty-year olds to have fun and be alive. But whereas in America you’d get looks of jealousy at best or judgment at worst, culture dictates heavier consequences for three Palestinian women living in the Israeli metropolis. There’s the liberal party girl attorney (Mouna Hawa‘s Laila), Christian communist lesbian DJ (Sana Jammalieh‘s Salma), and devout Muslim computer science major Nour (Shaden Kanboura) all trying to embrace their individuality and independence amongst friends/family who don’t approve, pretend to approve, or legitimately choose to understand the nuance twenty-first century living provides. They grow together in Maysaloun Hamoud‘s feature debut Bar Bahar [In Between] as sisters, able to look past differences straight to the heart.
The title describes these characters as in-flux: no longer adolescents unsure of their futures but as...
The title describes these characters as in-flux: no longer adolescents unsure of their futures but as...
- 9/22/2016
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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