Lara is Palestinian and lives in London. She has everything she wants in her life: a husband, a son and a beautiful house in one of the best areas of the city. Nevertheless, her everyday life appears cold and grey, only brightened up by surreptitious sips of vodka. But one day, Inam, a sensual, resolute girl, knocks on her door. Lara seems to be transported back to her adolescence when she and Inam were close friends, and studied together in Ramallah. In Lara's astonished eyes we see a mixture of fear and desire towards the woman whom she had lost sight of. A deceptive tangle of memories which a trauma, a love affair and an experience with two Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem an re-surface. From a gripping, well structured emotional thriller that traces back their memories through recurrent flashbacks that take us to the West Bank in 1994, during the Intifada.
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Jonathan Sagall Director · Yuval Netter Editor
First release February 12, 2011 · Produced in Israel, United Kingdom · Languages Arabic, English, Hebrew
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Israel · United Kingdom
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Original title
אודם
Original language
Hebrew
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Arabic · English · Hebrew
Release dates
Germany · February 12, 2011
Limited theatrical · Berlin International Film Festival
Israel · March 1, 2012
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