Alam

Alam (2022)

Drama

Despite being part of a young generation of Palestinian Arabs whose families chose to stay and challenge the Israeli state after Al-Nakba, 17-year-old Tamer and his friends are just like any other group of teenage boys. They clumsily search for drugs, flirt with girls, play video games, and slack off at school. However, when a beautiful new student named Maysaa’ joins their class Tamer immediately falls for her and, by association, is drawn into her political activism. Together they join fellow classmate, Safwat, in an operation to covertly raise the Palestinian flag and peacefully disrupt the local celebrations planned for Israel’s Independence Day – otherwise known to Palestinians as a day of mourning and memorialization for their displacement 70 years prior. Unsure of his own political convictions, Tamer must quickly determine what matters to him and what price he is willing to pay for freedom.

Director: Firas Khoury

Casts

	Mahmood Bakri as Tamer
	Sereen Khass as Maysaa'
	Mohammad Karaki as Shekel
	Muhammad Abed Elrahman as Safwat
	Ahmad Zaghmouri as Rida
	Saleh Bakri as Uncle Naji
	Amer Hlehel as Tamer's father
	Jaboor Kawn as May
	Haithem Kokhon as The headmaster's assistant
	Riyad Sliman as Adel
	Moez Toumi as The headmaster

Crew