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with two choices: either travel with him to Egypt and carry on with her education there under his watchful eye, or stay in
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Tension rises as Rana's father prepares to leave for Egypt and the sheikh has still not arrived to perform the ceremony. Rana discovers that the sheikh is stuck at a roadblock and she, Khalil, and her father drive out to find him. They exchange vows in the car and the film ends with a celebration on
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discusses the challenges he faced when producing the film: "For sure the intifada influenced the production because at the end of the film, reality is stronger than fiction. The occupation, the checkpoints — you don’t want them to interfere with your story but the ugliness of occupation influenced
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Rana is a 17-year-old girl living in
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Rana is shocked and disappointed with the options and decides to run away from home in search of her lover Khalil. Her father does not approve of Khalil and Khalil is not included in the list of people she can marry. After hours of searching, she finally discovers his location and rushes to him,
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Rana asks Khalil to marry her and presses him for a decision so that they can be married before her father leaves. They find a sheikh prepared to marry them and drive to her father's house to ask for his approval. Rana's father can find no excuse under
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shows an approval rating of 93% based on reviews from 28 critics, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The website's critical consensus states: "A poignant drama that offers a look at what it is like to live in occupied
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the look of film. As much as you might not want occupation to influence the making of the film, at the end it does influence it."
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