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A House in Jerusalem (12A)
Directed by Muayad Alayan
PALESTINIAN filmmaker Muayad Alayan explores the lasting effects and scars of the 1948 Nakba against Palestinians through this eerie and haunting supernatural drama.
Directed by Alayan, who co-wrote it with his brother Rami, the film follows Rebecca (Miley Locke), a young British Jewish girl who moves with her father Michael (Johnny Harris) from the UK to their ancestral home in Jerusalem seeking a fresh start in the wake of her mother’s tragic death.
The film, which is semi-autobiographical, is seen through the eyes of Rebecca who is crippled by grief. As unexplained things begin to occur in the house Michael believes Rebecca may be to blame, but she discovers that it is a young Palestinian girl called Rasha (Sheherazade Farrell) who used to live there. She explains to Rebecca how her family were forced to leave during the Nakba and she has been hiding in the well waiting for their return.
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