Love During Wartime
Europe On Screen
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1h 32m
"a heartbreaking and unusually intimate account of a relationship impeded by geopolitics." The Atlantic
Tribeca Film Festival
CPH:DOX
Göteborg International Film Festival
The recently married couple Jasmin and Assi are forced to live separated. She lives in Berlin, he in Ramallah. They want desperately to make a life together but it proves to be an impossible task. When an Israeli marries a Palestinian they are beyond security offered to other members of society at every turn they are faced with a Catch 22 situation. Israeli bureaucracy filled with suspicion and a menacing Palestinian society makes their life a nightmare.
Sweden - 2010 - 1h 32m
Directed By: Gabriella Bier
Written By: Gabriella Bier
Starring: Jasmin Avissar, Osama Avissar
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