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Salt of This Sea
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Salt of This Sea

Sep 3, 2008
1h 49m
★ 5.8

Overview

Born in Brooklyn to Palestinian refugee parents, Soraya decides to journey to the country of her ancestry when she discovers that her grandfather's savings have been frozen in a Jaffa bank account since his 1948 exile. However, she soon finds that her simple plan is a complicated undertaking — one that takes her further from her comfort zone than she'd imagined.

Genres

Drama
Romance

Production Companies

JBA Production
Philistine Films
Thelma Film
Tarantula
Louverture Films
Clarity World Films
Augustus Film
TSR
Mediapro

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Cast

Suheir Hammad

Soraya

Suheir Hammad

Saleh Bakri

Emad

Saleh Bakri

Riyad Ideis

Marwan

Riyad Ideis

Sylvie Wetz

Corinne (as Sylvie Wetz)

Sylvie Wetz

Yahya Barakat

Ziad

Yahya Barakat

Khaled Hourani

Khaled

Khaled Hourani

Iman Aoun

Wealthy Landlord

Iman Aoun

Juliano Mer-Khamis

Hiking Leader

Juliano Mer-Khamis