SAFAR Film Festival: Alam (The Flag)Cert-TBC

Directed by Firas Khoury | France/Tunisia/Palestine | 2022 | 1h 44m | Arabic w/ English subtitles | Starring Mahmood Bakri, Sereen Khass, Mohammad Karaki, Muhammad Abed Elrahman, Saleh Bakri

In a Palestinian town, Tamer and his friends lead a typical high school student’s life until the arrival of the beautiful Maysaa’. Hoping to impress her, he agrees to take part in her plan to replace the school’s Israeli flag with the Palestinian flag on Israeli Independence Day, which is a mourning day for Palestinians. A touching coming-of-age drama about emotional as well as political awakenings from first-time feature filmmaker Firas Khoury.

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We showed SAFAR Film Festival: Alam (The Flag) between July 1, 2023 and July 1, 2023.

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