As darkness falls, tensions between army and villagers rise, and the groom's wedding-night anger and impotence threaten family. A thoroughbred gets loose and runs to a mined field soldiers and Arabs must cooperate to rescue it. Several Arab films in the mid-80s – another is Michel Khleifi's Wedding in Galilee – explored the close links between sexual oppression and political and social oppression, whether in the form of traditional patriarchal orders or foreign military occupation or entrenched class interests. One Israeli officer swoons in the heat and Arab women take her into the cool house. This dark secret threatens to come out before the young man's wedding. Stream, when this silver thread In flood-time is a torrent brown. A carpentry apprentice is about to celebrate his wedding but he and his close friend have both been victims of sexual abuse, notably by the monstrous local carpenter. While the blithe birds sang at thy wedding, There her tears grew thorns for thy. This powerful film about working-class boys growing up in Tunisia caused a stir because it deals with sexual harassment and homosexuality. The action takes place inside the tank in the searing desert heat as the men dream of the homes and loved ones they left behind.
They get a lift inside a water tank and are stuck there when the driver is held up by customs officials.
Set in Iraq, shot in Syria, based on a famous Palestinian novel by Ghassan Kanafani (assassinated by the Israelis in 1972) and directed by an Egyptian, this harrowing film is about a group of Palestinian workmen in the early 50s trying to cross the border illegally from Iraq into Kuwait, to join the oil boom.
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