Bar Bahar - In Between

Layla, Salma and Nour - Palestinian citizens of Israel - share a flat in hipster Tel Aviv; beyond the watchful gaze of family, clan or village in the heart of a "modern," "progressive" Jewish society that will forever define them as 2nd class citizens. Tel-Aviv's Palestinian "underground" is a lab for testing out one's physical and emotional boundaries.
In this chilling duality, between would-be conservatism and supposed liberalism, three stories come together to form a single shared fate. The illusory freedom the big city offers exacts a high price: independence or identity crisis?
This is Maysaloun Hamoud’s feature debut.