THERE IS SALT AND BREAD BETWEEN US presents a selection of films by Larissa Sansour, Youmna Chlala, Alia Yunis, Andrea Nones-Kobiakov, and Marwa Benhalim. The films are centered around the theme of food, which is employed as a vehicle to explore political and cultural narratives.
Trespass the Salt, a collaborative project by Larissa Sansour and Youmna Chlala, delves into the nuanced relationship between Palestine and Lebanon around a lavish and surreal dinner table. Set in a virtual and imagined space, the film examines cultural and power dynamics in the region and with the West through humor and fiction.
The Devil's Recipe, a collaboration between Andrea Nones-Kobiakov and Marwa Benhalim, highlights the absurdity and redundancy of political speeches. Words from the speeches of Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías at the 61st United Nations General Assembly in 2006 and remarks by Muammar al-Gaddafi at the 64th United Nations General Assembly in 2009 are replaced with fruit and vegetable idioms.
In The Golden Harvest, the filmmaker Alia Yunis seeks to understand the profound and often troubled relationship between olive oil and the people of the Mediterranean, including her own father.
The Golden Harvest, Alia Yunis,
The Golden Harvest is a 6,000-year old love story in which the filmmaker tries to understand the profound, often troubled, relationship between olive trees and the people of Mediterranean, including Palestinian father.
Alia Yunis, director/producer, has worked on film, photography and writing projects in many parts of the world. Alia thinks about trees a lot, and is currently producing an interactive documentary entitled Tree Routed and completing a script about a Muslim girls obsessed with Christmas trees. Alia spent many years in Los Angeles as a screenwriter and script analyst for companies such as Village Roadshow Pictures, Miramax and the Academy of Motion Pictures and Science. She is a PEN Emerging Voices Fellow and the recipient of a comedy-writing award from Warner Bros. Her novel, The Night Counter (Random House), was critically-acclaimed by the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, and several other publications. She has produced several short films, as well as the feature documentary, Man Hunt (2003), which played on the Oxygen Channel as a Valentine’s Day special. Her fiction and nonfiction work has been translated into eight languages.
- Year2019
- Runtime85 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Arabic, Italian, Spanish, Modern Greek
- CountryGreece, Italy, Spain, Palestine
- PremiereThessalonki International Film Festival 2019
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- DirectorAlia Yunis
THERE IS SALT AND BREAD BETWEEN US presents a selection of films by Larissa Sansour, Youmna Chlala, Alia Yunis, Andrea Nones-Kobiakov, and Marwa Benhalim. The films are centered around the theme of food, which is employed as a vehicle to explore political and cultural narratives.
Trespass the Salt, a collaborative project by Larissa Sansour and Youmna Chlala, delves into the nuanced relationship between Palestine and Lebanon around a lavish and surreal dinner table. Set in a virtual and imagined space, the film examines cultural and power dynamics in the region and with the West through humor and fiction.
The Devil's Recipe, a collaboration between Andrea Nones-Kobiakov and Marwa Benhalim, highlights the absurdity and redundancy of political speeches. Words from the speeches of Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías at the 61st United Nations General Assembly in 2006 and remarks by Muammar al-Gaddafi at the 64th United Nations General Assembly in 2009 are replaced with fruit and vegetable idioms.
In The Golden Harvest, the filmmaker Alia Yunis seeks to understand the profound and often troubled relationship between olive oil and the people of the Mediterranean, including her own father.
The Golden Harvest, Alia Yunis,
The Golden Harvest is a 6,000-year old love story in which the filmmaker tries to understand the profound, often troubled, relationship between olive trees and the people of Mediterranean, including Palestinian father.
Alia Yunis, director/producer, has worked on film, photography and writing projects in many parts of the world. Alia thinks about trees a lot, and is currently producing an interactive documentary entitled Tree Routed and completing a script about a Muslim girls obsessed with Christmas trees. Alia spent many years in Los Angeles as a screenwriter and script analyst for companies such as Village Roadshow Pictures, Miramax and the Academy of Motion Pictures and Science. She is a PEN Emerging Voices Fellow and the recipient of a comedy-writing award from Warner Bros. Her novel, The Night Counter (Random House), was critically-acclaimed by the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, and several other publications. She has produced several short films, as well as the feature documentary, Man Hunt (2003), which played on the Oxygen Channel as a Valentine’s Day special. Her fiction and nonfiction work has been translated into eight languages.
- Year2019
- Runtime85 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Arabic, Italian, Spanish, Modern Greek
- CountryGreece, Italy, Spain, Palestine
- PremiereThessalonki International Film Festival 2019
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- DirectorAlia Yunis