In Between

(Bar Bahar)

103 minutes

Arabic
Hebrew

Israel
France

Lalia, Salma, and Nur share an apartment in the vibrant heart of Tel Aviv. Lalia, a criminal lawyer with a wicked wit, loves to burn off her workday stress in the underground club scene. Salma, slightly more subdued, is a DJ and bartender. Nur is a younger, religious Muslim girl who moves into the apartment in order to study at the university. Nur is both intrigued and intimidated by her two sophisticated roommates. When her conservative fiance visits, he is horrified by her secular friends, entreating her to hasten their marriage, leave Tel Aviv, and assume her rightful role as a wife. Salma and Lalia also face turmoil: Lalia has found love with a modern Muslim man whose acceptance proves less than unconditional, and Salma discovers that her Christian family in a northern Galilean village is not as liberal as they claim. These three very different women find themselves doing the same balancing act between tradition and modernity, citizenship and culture, fealty and freedom.

starring...

Mouna Hawa

Leila Bakhr

Sana Jammelieh

Salma

Shaden Kanboura

Nur

Mahmud Shalaby

Ziad Hamdi

Henry Andrawes

Wissam

Aiman Sohel Daw

Salah

Writer, Director

Maysaloun Hamoud

Cinematography

Itai Gross

Editors

Lev Goldser, Nili Feller

Music

MG Saad

Producer

Shlomi Elkabetz

Costumes

Catherine Van Bree

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88% - Feb 11, 2018

I love the way the film wove together so many in-betweens (pun intended?): the multiple cultures, religions, professions - including legal and illegal. The families we have vs. the ones we chose and the worlds of women - how they collide - and care for one another. And dark, joyless worlds still finding outlets - fascinating and complex - the visual of characters choosing visual presentations and presentations of constricted city apartment spaces.
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Wow, what a movie! And men - what pigs! Clearly the weaker sex!
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We need more women directors confronting challenging themes. Violence against women is never acceptable and it takes a Palestinian woman director, financed by Israelis and French, to say that today. It's a timely message considering the Hollywood and White House scandals surrounding violence against women.
Washington, DC Member

A beautiful movie! It was a sensitive take on choices, or lack of them. It opened a whole new world to me.
Washington, DC Member

The last shot says it all: here's the price of being a woman and being yourself when the world hasn't quite evolved like you have. I'm just glad the story was told with kindness or the message would have been too hard to take.
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Excellent music - I will definitely be purchasing the soundtrack - I am in LOVE!
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