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Rana's Wedding

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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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Critics Consensus

A poignant drama that offers a look at what it is like to live in occupied Palestine.

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Janice Page Boston Globe 03/12/2004
3/4
This wedding film is no stale confection. Go to Full Review Ted Fry Seattle Times 02/20/2004
3/4
Gentle, tumultuous coming-of- age-in-a-day story. Go to Full Review Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times 01/30/2004
3/4
The movie is passable as a story but fascinating as a document. Go to Full Review David Walsh World Socialist Web Site 02/16/2021
Clara Khoury is fine as Rana and the film has a generally healthy attitude toward life and its problems. Go to Full Review Felicia Feaster Creative Loafing 01/29/2020
Rana's Wedding is an urgent, consuming film about our conflicted humanity and the coexistence of both pure hope and ugly violence. Go to Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 07/30/2011
B
What's interesting are the shots of daily life in East Jerusalem and how it's seen through the eyes of the Arab heroine. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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01/13/2020 With beautiful scenery, exquisite character development, and tasteful lighting and camera work, Rana's Wedding very well could be one of the best movies of the past 60 years. Having watched this movie a minimum of 4 times a year for the past 8 years, I can very easily say this is my favorite and most-watched movie of all time. With the heart-wrenching scene of Rana's agony in the car, the film displays perfectly the ever-present emotional torment felt by people in war-stricken countries. Every viewing brings a torrent of tears to my eyes, and after finishing the movie I look forward to the next time. Rana's Wedding has taught me so much about love and hate and is a beautiful representation of the triumph of the human spirit. With a rich plotline and elegant dialogue, I recommend multiple people a day watch this movie. As I said it changed my life, and I think that it could change yours too. God Bless, and have a wonderful day See more 05/26/2015 Not much of a story. See more 12/08/2012 Well made film about how challenging life is under occupation and what people will go through for the important things in life. Slow moving but good. See more 07/28/2011 interesting take on the palestinian-israeli conflict through a woman who must get married or face deportation to cairo. See more 05/14/2010 A homage to the passion of survival,brilliant in its simplicity. See more 05/01/2010 Great movie... Clara Khoury is a super genius actress with really talkative eyes.. Another Day In Jerusalem passes.. very calm movie and very sympolic another good one from Hany Abu-Assad.. See more Read all reviews
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Hany Abu-Assad

Director

Clara Khoury

Rana

Khalifa Natour

Khalil

Ismael Dabbag

Ramzy

Walid Abed Elsalam

Marriage Official

Zuher Fahoum

Abu Siad

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Synopsis 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.
Director
Hany Abu-Assad
Producer
Bero Beyer, George Ibrahim
Screenwriter
Ihab Lamey, Liana Badr
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Arabic
Release Date (DVD)
Dec 11, 2007
Runtime
1h 30m