Bar Bahar

Movie
Original title	Bar Bahar
Country of production	Israel , France
original language	Arabic , Hebrew
Publishing year	2016
length	103 minutes
Rod
Director	Maysaloun Hamoud
script	Maysaloun Hamoud
production	Shlomi Elkabetz (Deux Beaux Garçons Film), ; Sandrine Brauer (En Compagnie des Lamas)
music	MG Saad
camera	Itay Gross
cut	Lev Golster, ; Nili Feller
occupation
	Mouna Hawa : Laila Bakhr; Sana Jammalieh : Salma; Shaden Kanboura : Noor; Mahmood Shalabi : Ziad Hamdi;

Bar Bahar ( Arabic بَر بَحَر, translit. Bar Bahar ( Earth and Sea ); Hebrew לא פה, לא שם, translit. Lo scham, Lo po pur ( Not here, not there ); international title: In Between ) is an Israeli - French drama from 2016 and the feature film debut of director Maysaloun Hamoud, who also wrote the screenplay. The film tells of three young Palestinian women who live together in Tel Aviv , Israel , with their lives caught between cultural openness, sexual freedom and the constraints of tradition.

action

The Palestinian women Laila and Salma live together in a shared flat in Tel Aviv. Laila is a lawyer , Salma is a DJane and a bartender, and both enjoy their freedom in Tel Aviv nightlife. When a room becomes available, Noor, a Muslim from Umm al-Fahm , a hard-working IT student in Tel Aviv and engaged to the conservative Wissam, moves into the flat. Despite their differences, the three women show solidarity in their striving for freedom and self-determination and the associated conflicts with traditional role models, social control and prejudices in Jewish society. Laila struggles with the patriarchal views of her friend, who only appears to be a progressive friend. Salma comes into conflict with her actually liberal Christian family when she brings her friend on a weekend visit. And Noor, who does not want to give up her studies and - infected by her roommates - her newly won freedoms, sees herself more and more cornered by her devout fiancé. When Wissam raped Noor, the three friends came up with a plan to get back at him.

production

Screenwriter and director Maysaloun Hamoud and executive producer Shlomi Elkabetz participated with the film project in 2015 at the Jerusalem Pitch Point , which is being held as part of the Jerusalem Film Festival in cooperation with the Israel Film Fund and the Jerusalem Film & Television Fund and the financial and creative promotion of promising Israeli film projects as a goal. Bar Bahar won the YAPIMLAB Award and the IFP Brooklyn Award and received corresponding financial support as well as support in the area of production .

The film was made in an Israeli-French co-production under the direction of the two production companies Deux Beaux Garçons Films and En Compagnie des Lamas . When casting the roles, Riyad Sliman and Maysaloun Hamoud deliberately looked for authentic actors with little experience who would apply to the individual characters and mainly resorted to theater actors . Sana Jammalieh , who played the character of Salma, and Aiman Daw , who played the supporting character of Saleh, had no previous acting experience.

Premiere celebrated Bar Bahar on the Toronto Film Festival on September 11 2016th

reception

Due to the portrayal of the progressive Palestinian underground scene in Israel and the open discussion of club culture , drug use and homosexuality - a novelty in Palestinian cinema - the film met with great criticism in conservative circles. The mayor of the Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm , from which the fictional character Noor comes from, declared the film Bar Bahar to be Haram . Maysaloun Hamoud received numerous death threats in the months following the film's release.

For this authentic representation of the everyday life of young, modern Palestinian women in Israel, who move between the open enjoyment of their freedoms, cultural prejudices and against the constant background of traditional values of their families, for the representation of the search for self-determination in life between two worlds , Bar Bahar and Maysaloun Hamoud have been critically acclaimed and have received numerous awards.

"For me the contradiction is not between Orient and Occident, but between conservatives and liberals."

- Maysaloun Hamoud

At Rotten Tomatoes, the film was able to convince 98 percent of the critics (as of January 2018).

Awards and nominations

Toronto International Film Festival 2016

NETPAC Award

San Sebastián International Film Festival 2016

Premio Sebastiane
Eroksi Youth Award
TVE - “Otra Mirada” Award
CICAE Art Cinema Award

Zagreb Film Festival 2016

Special Mention Award in the Best Feature Film category

VIP Audience Award in the Best Film category

Haifa International Film Festival 2016

The Danny Lerner Award for Best Debut Feature Film for Maysaloun Hamoud
The Fedeora Award for Artistic Achievement in an Israeli Feature Film for Mouna Hawa, Sana Jammalieh and Shaden Kanboura
Audience Award

Palm Springs International Film Festival 2017

nominated for
- New Voices / New Visions Award

Festival international du premier film d'Annonay 2017

Grand Prix
Prix du public

Kosmorama, Trondheim Internasjonale Film Festival 2017

New Directors Award for Maysaloun Hamoud

International Istanbul Film Festival 2017

FIPRESCI award
nominated for
- Grand Prix: Golden Tulip

Berkshire International Film Festival 2017

Jury Award in the Best Feature Film category

Cinetopia Film Festival 2017

Festival Director's Award in the Best Feature Film category

Odessa Film Festival 2017

nominated for
- Grand Prix: The Golden Duke

World Cinema Amsterdam 2017

nominated for
- Special Mention Award

Ophir Award 2017

Best Actress for Shaden Kanboura
Best Supporting Actress for Mouna Hawa
nominated for
- Best movie
- Best director for Maysaloun Hamoud
- Best Screenplay for Maysaloun Hamoud
- Best camera for Itay Gross
- Best editing for Lev Goltser and Nili Feller
- Best costumes for Li alembic
- Best make-up for Ziv Katanov
- Best casting for Riyad Sliman and Maysaloun Hamoud
- Best tone for Tuli Chen and Itzik Cohen
- Best production design for Hagar Brotman

Web links

Bar Bahar in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b In Between . RexBern . Retrieved January 6, 2018.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Inge Günther: Not exactly made for a shared apartment . Frankfurter Rundschau . February 6, 2017. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
↑ The 2017 Jerusalem Pitch Point . JFF . Retrieved January 6, 2018.
↑ Melanie Goodfellow: Atia, Hamoud, Shumunov triumph at Jerusalem Pitch Point . ScreenDaily . July 15, 2015. Archived from the original on August 28, 2016. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
↑ Art Cinema Award for “Bar Bahar”, by Maysaloun Hamoud, at the 2016 San Sebastián Film Festival . CICAE . September 30, 2016. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
↑ Brigitte Hürlimann: The life of the young Palestinians in Israel . NZZ. April 27, 2017. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
^ Bar Bahar . IMDb. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
↑ ^a ^b Emma Jones: The female director who was issued a fatwa for her first film . BBC. September 3, 2017. Accessed January 6, 2018.
↑ In Between . Rotten tomatoes . Retrieved January 7, 2018.

[Bern-1] In Between . RexBern . Retrieved January 6, 2018.

[Frankfurter-2] Inge Günther: Not exactly made for a shared apartment . Frankfurter Rundschau . February 6, 2017. Retrieved January 7, 2018.

[Pitch-3] The 2017 Jerusalem Pitch Point . JFF . Retrieved January 6, 2018.

[Atia-4] Melanie Goodfellow: Atia, Hamoud, Shumunov triumph at Jerusalem Pitch Point . ScreenDaily . July 15, 2015. Archived from the original on August 28, 2016. Retrieved January 6, 2018.

[Art_Cinema-5] Art Cinema Award for “Bar Bahar”, by Maysaloun Hamoud, at the 2016 San Sebastián Film Festival . CICAE . September 30, 2016. Retrieved January 7, 2018.

[NZZ-6] Brigitte Hürlimann: The life of the young Palestinians in Israel . NZZ. April 27, 2017. Retrieved January 6, 2018.

[imdb-7] Bar Bahar . IMDb. Retrieved January 6, 2018.

[bbc-8] Emma Jones: The female director who was issued a fatwa for her first film . BBC. September 3, 2017. Accessed January 6, 2018.

[RT-9] In Between . Rotten tomatoes . Retrieved January 7, 2018.