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SAND STORM

SUFAT CHOL

By Elite ZEXER

First film - Completed 2016

Sundance Film Festival 2016

World Dramatic

Sundance 2016

Winner of World Dramatic Grand Jury Prize

Israel Film Academy Awards 2016

WINNER - Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Best Production Design, Best Make Up, Best Casting

Berilin IFF 2016

Panorama

Toronto IFF 2016

Discovery

Seattle International Film Festival 2016

WINNER - New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize

Traverse City IFF 2016

WINNER - Best Foreign Fiction Prize for first time filmmaker

Jeonju International Film Festival 2016

WINNER - International Competition Grand Prize

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- First film, Drama
- Countries
- ISRAEL
- Languages
- ARABIC
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 87 mn
- Director(s)
- Elite ZEXER
- Writer(s)
- Elite ZEXER
- Cast
- Lamis AMMAR, Ruba BLAL-ASFOUR, Haitham OMARI
- Producer(s)
- Estee YACOV-MECKLBERG (2-Team Productions), Haim MECKLBERG (2-Team Productions)
- Synopsis
- Desert noon in a Bedouin village in southern Israel. Jalila plays hosts to an awkward celebration – the marriage of her husband to a second, much younger wife – while having to conceal the insult that boils inside of her.
  Her daughter Layla is preoccupied with a different matter. Her secret, strictly forbidden, love affair with Anuar was just discovered by her mother.
  Jalila believes that the world is harsh and cruel and that the only way to win is to keep your mouth shut and your head held high. The idea is not to draw too much attention to yourself and to struggle from inside against the limits of the traditional world.
  Layla does not believe that there are limits to the world surrounding her. Everything can be hers if only she wishes for it hard enough.
  But, as the story unfolds, each fails in her individual battle. Their entire family falls apart and everything they believe in is shattered.
  Now the two women are forced to understand that if they wish to survive, they will have to start seeing the world through each other's eyes.