Director
Maha Haj
Starring
Amer Hlehel, Ashraf Farah
Run Time
108 mins
Release Year
2022
Country of Origin
Palestine, Germany, France, Cyprus, Qatar
Language
Arabic
Director of Photography: Antoine Heberlé
Editor: Véronique Lange
Music: Munder Odeh
Screenplay by: Maha Haj
Production Designer: Andreas Antoniou
Mediterranean Fever
Part of the The Powell & Pressburger Award for Best Feature Film Strand
Nazareth-born Palestinian filmmaker Maha Haj won the Un Certain Regard Best Screenplay Prize at Cannes for her second feature, which charts the unlikely bond between two very different Arab family men living in the Israeli port city of Haifa. Waleed suffers from severe depression and dreams of becoming an author. He seeks inspiration for his crime fiction in ebullient new neighbour Jalal, a small-time crook. Their friendship takes a dark turn in this wry examination of mental illness and masculinity. [18]