Wedding in Galilee is a 1987 film directed

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 by Michel Khleifi

Michel Khleifi

Michel Khleifi is a Palestinian film writer, director and producer. He emigrated from Israel in 1970 and now resides in Belgium. There, he studied television and theatre directing at the Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle . After graduating from INSAS, he worked in Belgium...

. It was awarded the International Critics Prize at Cannes

Cannes

Cannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. It is a Commune of France in the Alpes-Maritimes department....

 in 1987.

Synopsis

The film takes place in a Palestinian village ruled by an Israeli military governor. At the start of the film the village is under a curfew

Curfew

A curfew is an order specifying a time after which certain regulations apply. Examples:# An order by a government for certain persons to return home daily before a certain time...

. The village mayor, muktar, wants to celebrate his son's wedding with the traditional elaborate ceremony despite the curfew. The Israeli military governor initially refuses, but finally allows the wedding to take place on the condition that he and his staff are invited.

Cast

• Mohamad Ali El Akili ... Mukhtar
• Bushra Karaman ... Mother
• Makram Khoury ... The governor
• Yussuf Abu-Warda ... Bacem (as Youssef Abou Warda)
• Anna Condo ... Bride (as Anna Achdian)
• Nazih Akleh ... Groom
• Sonia Amar ... Soumaya
• Eyad Anis ... Hassan
• Waël Barghouti ... Ziad
• Juliano Mer ... Officer
• Ian Chemi ... Officer 2
• Tali Dorat ... Soldier
• Ali Al Akili

Awards

• International Critics Prize, Cannes 1987
• the Golden Shell
  Golden Shell
  The Golden Shell is the highest prize given to a competing film at the San Sebastián Film Festival. It was introduced in 1957. In 1953 and 1954, the highest prize had been called the Gran Premio. In 1955 and 1956 it was replaced by the Silver Shell...
  
   at San Sebastián International Film Festival
  San Sebastián International Film Festival
  The San Sebastián International Film Festival is an annual FIAPF A category film festival held in the Spanish city of San Sebastián .-History:The festival was founded in 1953...
  
  , 1987
• Tanit d'or
  Tanit d'or
  The Tanit d'or is the grand prize of the Carthage Film Festival, hosted biennially in Tunisia. The award is named for the lunar goddess of ancient Carthage and takes the shape of her symbol, a trapezium surmounted by a horizontal line and a circle....
  
   at Carthage Film Festival
  Carthage Film Festival
  The Carthage Film Festival is a biannual October film festival hosted by the government of Tunisia. It alternates with the Damascus International Film Festival....
  
  , 1988
• Joseph Plateau Awards 1988

Further reading

• Gertz, Nurith; Khleifi, George (2008): Palestinian Cinema: Landscape, Trauma, and Memory, Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-22007-6. With:
  • Wedding in Galilee, p. 88-93,