My Love Awaits Me By the Sea

Name: My Love Awaits Me By the Sea
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2013
Duration: 80 min

Director: Mais Darwazah

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Highlights

Participated in more than 30 festivals and won four awards.
The film is supported by The Arab Fund for Arts & Culture, Hikma Pharmaceuticals, Doha Film Institute, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program & Fund and Symbiosis Designs, in association with Screen Institute Beirut and with the participation of SANAD (The Development Fund of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, United Arab Emirates).
The film pays tribute to Hasan Hourani, a Palestinian artist who, with his imagination, rises above the Occupation.

2013/ Jordan - Germany - Palestine - Qatar80 min/ Documentary

Original Title

Habibi Bistanany A’nd al Bahar

SYNOPSIS

A poetic documentary narrating the story of the director who takes a first time journey back to her homeland, Palestine. She finds everyone holding on to their dreams in a land exhausted by endless war.

CAST

Ghayda Ajalyaqeen Darwazah
Hasan Hourani
Mohammad Reda Al-Haj Ahmad
Samer Hussam

CREW

Screenwriter: Mais Darwazah
DOP: Arlette Girardot
Joude Gorani
Editor: Vartan Avakian

Production Company(ies)

The Imaginarium Films
Mengamuk Films
Little Wanderer Films

Producer(s)

Rula Nasser
Michel Balagué
Mais Darwazah

Toronto International Film Festival, Canada

Copenhagen International Documentary Festival (CPH:DOX), Denmark

Silk Road Film Festival, Ireland

Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), UAE

Tempo Documentary Festival, Sweden

East End Film Festival, UK

Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Australia

Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ismailia International Film Festival for Documentaries and Shorts, Egypt

MedFilm Festival, Italy

New Directors New Films Festival, Portugal

Festival Internacional de Cinema Feminino, Brazil

Special Jury Award for Best Feature-length Documentary at the Ismailia International Film Festival for Documentaries and Shorts, Egypt

Best Documentary at the MedFilm Festival, Italy

Golden Linx for Best Feature Documentary at the New Directors New Films Festival, Portugal

Grand Prize at the Festival Internacional de Cinema Feminino, Brazil

Reviews

Robert Bell - Exclaim!

Jay Weissberg - Variety

Jessica Purkiss - Middle East Monitor

Soha Elsirgany - Ahram Online

Amal Magdy - Filfan (Arabic)

Rana El Gemee’y - Masrawy (Arabic)

Quotes

“Mais Darwazah's documentary is a moving, intensely personal essay on her experience as a second-generation Palestinian making her first trip to the homeland.” Jay Weissberg - Variety

“Palestinian director Mais Darwazah’s documentary “My Love Awaits me by the Sea” is an epic love story.” Jessica Purkiss - Middle East Monitor

“My Love Awaits Me by the Sea unfolds as a poetic documentary, but it is more an ode to dreams, dreamers, and the power of fiction in transcending the harsh realities of life.” Soha Elsirgany - Ahram Online