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This movie is about a very, very unhappy Palestinian young women who was brought up in the United States and can not get beyond the fact that her family was displaced from (what is now know as Israel), after the 1948 UN mandate.
In the movie she returns to Israel, the West Bank and then her grandfather's house in Israel. On the way she shares her unhappiness with everyone she meets. She just can't reconcile the injustice of the political actions that occur in this imperfect world.
Not much of a plot. Movie really goes nowhere and is essentially a document that discusses the problems that the Palestinian Arabs feel by being under the thumb of the Israelis.
From Rotten Tomatoes: The first feature film from Palestine by a female director, Salt of this Sea is the politically and emotionally explosive story of Soraya (Suheir Hammad), a Brooklyn-born woman of Palestinian lineage who comes to Israel to search for the land and ancestral home near Jaffa from where her grandparents were ejected 60 years ago. Once she arrives, reality strikes hard and her mission to claim what is hers and fulfill her lifelong dream to "return" to Palestine is obstructed at every turn. Having discovered that her grandfather's bank account was frozen and seized in 1948, she goes to the new Ramallah branch of the bank to claim the funds. Frustrated and deluded when her demands are rebuffed, she and her new Palestinian boyfriend Emad decide to take control of their own destinies by every means possible - even if it means breaking the law.
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