Syrian Bride (The)Syrian Bride (The)

Overview

Credits non contractual

  • Awards:

    • Montreal World Film Festival 2004: Grand Prix of the Americas People's Choice Award

  • Details:

    • 97 min - Drama - War - Arabic, English, Hebrew,
      some Russian & French - 2004
    • Color - Scope - Dolby SRD

  • Directed by:

    • Eran Riklis

  • Cast:

    • Hiam Abbass
    • Makram J. Khoury
    • Clara Khoury
    • Ashraf Barhoum
    • Eyad Sheety

  • Produced by:

    • MACT Productions

  • Delivery:

    • Available

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  • Photos

  • Synopsis

    Mona's wedding day is the saddest day of her life. Once she crosses the border between Israel and Syria to marry Syrian TV star Tallel, she will never be allowed back to her family in Majdal Shams, a Druze village in the Israeli occupied Golan Heights.
    The Syrian Bride is the story of Mona's wedding day at the border, a wedding starting at 5:00am and ending in the late afternoon. The Syrian Bride is the story of a family torn apart over questions of tradition, politics and prejudice: the tough, political father, the playboy brother, the outcast elder brother, and Amal, the elder sister, a modern woman trapped in a culture and tradition she wants to break out of. At the end of a long day they all realise that once you cross the border there is no way back.

  • Awards

    Locarno International Film Festival 2004
    Audience Award

    Montréal World Film Festival 2004
    FIPRESCI Prize
    Grand Prix des Amériques
    People's Choice Award
    Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Eran Riklis

    Awards of the Israeli Film Academy 2004: 6 nominations

    Bangkok International Film Festival 2005: 1 nomination
    Nominated Golden Kinnaree Award Best Film

    European Film Awards 2005: 1 nomination
    Audience Award Best Actress

    European Film Award Best Composer

    Flanders International Film Festival 2004: 2 awards and 1 nomination
    Audience Award
    Best Screenplay
    Nominated for the Grand Prix

    Satellite Awards 2006
    Nominated Satellite Award Best Motion Picture, Foreign Language
    Israel.

    World Soundtrack Awards 2005
    Nominated World Soundtrack Award Discovery of the Year