Director: Eran Riklis
Screenplay: Eran Riklis, Suha Arraf
Cinemtaographer: R. Klausmann
Editing: Tova Asher
Art Director: Miguel Markin
Sound: Gil Toren, Ashi Milo, Hervé Buirette
Music: Habib Shehadeh, Hanna
Casting: Hiam Abbass, Ali Suliman, R. Lipaz-Michael, Doron Tavory, Tarik Copty, Amos Lavie, Amnon Wolf
Production: Mact Productions, Arte France
Distribution:
Paradis Films
6 rue Lincoln
75008 Paris
Tel: 0033 1.53 53 44 10
Mail: [email protected]
www.paradisfilms.com
Year: 2007
Screening: 2019, 2016, 2012
35 mm, Color, 106 min,
OV Hebrew and Arabic with French subtitles
Multi awarded in worldwide film festivals
Salma lives in a small Palestinian village on the West Bank of Jordan, on the Green Line separating Israel from the occupied territories. Herlemon tree plantation is considered as a security threat for her new neighbour, the Israeli Minister of Defence. He orders Salma to fell the trees under the pretext of being a hiding place for terrorists. Salma is determined to save her magnificent lemon trees by all means, even if she has to go to Supreme Court and confront the dreadful lawyers of the army supported by the government. However, a Palestinian widow cannot freely behave, especially when a sheer neighbourhood problem becomes a major strategic issue. Salma will find an unexpected ally with Mira, the minister’s wife. The two women develop a complicity which goes beyond the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"I wanted to tell a story which could be read at several levels whether emotional, political or physical." Eran Riklis
