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EYES OF A THIEF

By Najwa NAJJAR

Drama - Completed 2014

Festivals
& Awards

Cairo IFF 2014

Feature Film Int'l Comp. Best Actor

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Drama, Historical
- Countries
- PALESTINE, ALGERIA, FRANCE, ICELAND
- Languages
- ARABIC
- Duration
- 100 mn
- Director(s)
- Najwa NAJJAR
- Writer(s)
- Najwa NAJJAR
- Cast
- Khaled ABOU NAGGA, Souad MASSI
- Producer(s)
- Hani KORT (USTURA FILMS), Najwa NAJJAR (USTURA FILMS), Mustapha ORIF (AARC)
- Synopsis
- Inspired by a true event. Eyes of a Thief begins at the height of the Palestinian
  Uprising in 2002 with Tareq, an enigmatic man bearing fresh wounds. Tended to
  by local nuns, who help him escape, he’s soon arrested by Israeli soldiers. Ten
  years later Tareq is released from prison and returns to his town, a place
  transformed by drastic changes and filled with secrets, to find his daughter Nur.
  As secrets are uncovered, light is shed on the stifling nature of contemporary
  Palestinian society, while revealing Tareq’s hidden past. The sense of moral
  certainty is replaced by questionable individual choices with no easy answers.
- Partners & financing
- The State of Palestine Ministry of Culture
  Algerian Ministry of Culture
  Doha Film Institute
  Royal Film Commission Jordan Film Fund
  Wataniya Palestine
  Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Jerusalem
  Municipality of Nablus