Rana’s Wedding / Le Mariage de Rana, un jour ordinaire à Jérusalem
by Hany Abu-Assad
The film follows a day in the life of Rana, a young Palestinian woman of East-Jerusaiem, who sneaks out of the house on the day she is set to go with her father to Egypt, to try to find her true love, Khalil. Her father disapproves her choice of Khalil as a husband.
The father has given her a list of grooms she may choose from. As Rana wanders through the city in search of her love, we get a glimpse of life In Jerusalem. During the course of the film, Rana concludes that when the abnormality of occupation and barriers become an everyday reality, love and marriage disappear into fiction.
The father has given her a list of grooms she may choose from. As Rana wanders through the city in search of her love, we get a glimpse of life In Jerusalem. During the course of the film, Rana concludes that when the abnormality of occupation and barriers become an everyday reality, love and marriage disappear into fiction.
