102 min
Maysaloun Hamoud
Drama
2016 - Israel, France

Screening with Ocean

The film is Jaffa-based Palestinian director Maysaloun Hamoud’s feature debut. In Between is a story of three young Palestinian women sharing an apartment in Tel Aviv. Layla, a criminal lawyer, frequents the underground club scene with her roommate Salma a DJ and bartender. Nur, younger and religious, moves into their apartment to study at the nearby university. These three different women find themselves doing the same balancing act between tradition and modernity, citizenship and culture, fealty and freedom.

Please note: the film contains scene of sexual violence. Q&A with director to follow.

Q&A with director to follow. Moderated by Dina Georgis, Assistant Professor, Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto.

Co-presenters:
Female Eye Film Festival
Salaam Canada
Inside Out