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Personal Affairs

  • Archive - Festival 32
  • Director: Maha Haj
  • Israel 2016
  • 90 minutes
  • Arabic
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Nazareth, today. An old couple lives wearily to the rhythm of daily routine. On the other side of the border, in Ramallah, their son Tarek wishes to remain an eternal bachelor, their daughter is about to give birth, while her husband lands a movie role and the grandmother loses her head... Between check-points and dreams, frivolity and politics, some want to leave, others want to stay but all have personal affairs to resolve.
Personal Affairs was presented in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2016 Cannes Festival.
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  • Director Maha Haj
  • Production Baher Agbariya
  • Script Maha Haj
  • Cinematography Elaad Debi
  • Editing Veronique Lange
  • Music Habib Shehadeh Hanna
  • Sound Design Michael Gorovich
  • Festivals Cannes, Beirut, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Hong Kong
  • Actors Amer Hlehel, Doriad Liddawi, Mahmoud Shawahdeh, Sana Shawahdeh, Maisa Abdelhadi, Hanan Hillo, Ziad Bakri, Jihan Dermelkonian
  • Source Majdal Films, Umm El-Fahem
  • Additional Producers Ehab Assal, Munther Haj

Personal Affairs