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Rana’s Wedding

  • Bloor Cinema Toronto Canada (map)

92 min
Hany Abu-Assad
Fiction
2002 - Palestine

Featuring: Clara Khoury , Khalifa Natour

One morning, spirited Rana (Clara Khoury), a Palestinian teenager living in Jerusalem, receives a startling note from her father, Abu Siad (Zuher Fahoum) : She can either get married or emigrate with him to Egypt later that afternoon. Rana dashes off to find her boyfriend, Khalil (Khalifa Natour), but must negotiate menacing Israeli checkpoints and strict Islamic law as she races across the West Bank. She begins to wonder if she really wants to stay after all.

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Screened with Measures of Distance

Earlier Event: September 27
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Later Event: September 28
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