Alam

Name: Alam
Genre: Drama
Released: April 26, 2024
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Amer Hlehel, Haithem Kokhon, Jaboor Kawn, Mahmood Bakri, Moez Toumi

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Film Movement | Release Date: April 26, 2024 | NR

Starring: Amer Hlehel, Haithem Kokhon, Jaboor Kawn, Mahmood Bakri, Moez Toumi, Mohammad Karaki, Muhammad Abed Elrahman, Riyad Sliman, Saleh Bakri, Sereen Khass

Summary: Despite being part of a young generation of Palestinian Arabs whose families chose to stay and challenge the Israeli state after Al-Nakba, 17-year-old Tamer and his friends are just like any other group of teenage boys. They clumsily search for drugs, flirt with girls, play video games, and slack off at school. However, when a beautiful newDespite being part of a young generation of Palestinian Arabs whose families chose to stay and challenge the Israeli state after Al-Nakba, 17-year-old Tamer and his friends are just like any other group of teenage boys. They clumsily search for drugs, flirt with girls, play video games, and slack off at school. However, when a beautiful new student named Maysaa’ joins their class Tamer immediately falls for her and, by association, is drawn into her political activism. Together they join fellow classmate, Safwat, in an operation to covertly raise the Palestinian flag and peacefully disrupt the local celebrations planned for Israel’s Independence Day – otherwise known to Palestinians as a day of mourning and memorialization for their displacement 70 years prior. Unsure of his own political convictions, Tamer must quickly determine what matters to him and what price he is willing to pay for freedom.… Expand

Director: Firas Khoury

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: NR

Runtime: 109 min

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Alissa Simon

Apr 23, 2024

This intelligent, sensitive treatment of the rarely seen, everyday lives of young Palestinian citizens of Israel marks tyro feature writer-director Firas Khoury as a talent to watch. Read full review

Jason Delgado

Apr 23, 2024

The media and society, in general, love to label groups of people as “the others.” But throughout the world, we have more in common than we realize. It takes films like Alam to see that we’re all in this together. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Apr 23, 2024

Khoury’s light touch with a serious-minded script keeps the stakes low but intensely personal in what is essentially a story of a kid who risks his scholastic career, his good relations with his family and his “future” to impress a girl. Read full review

Fionnuala Halligan

Apr 23, 2024

To a certain extent, Alam, which marks Khoury’s feature debut after a well-regarded career in shorts (in particular, Maradona’s Legs) follows some clear conventions, but there’s enough that is still raw and urgent at the film’s soul to make it stand out. Read full review

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