Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays (2025)

ينعاد عليكو

Rami deals with his Jewish girlfriend’s opposition to abortion. His mother complicates things while seeking compensation for her daughter Fifi accident. Miri plans to terminate her sister’s pregnancy with Rami, who’s Arab. Fifi struggles to hide her non-virginity to save her family’s reputation.

Date of release
2025-07-03
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (18)
Runtime
2h 3m
Genres
Drama
Director
Scandar Copti

Casting

Interesting facts

Happy Holidays is a 2024 Palestinian family drama film written and directed by Scandar Copti. It is an international co-production. It premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on 4 September 2024, where it won the "Orizzonti" (Horizons) Award for Best Screenplay. It is scheduled to have a limited theatrical release in the United States on 5 December 2025.

Production

The film is written, directed, and edited by Scandar Copti, a Palestinian director with Israeli citizenship, who is known for his debut feature film Ajami (2009), which was nominated for an Oscar. He said that the inspiration for the film came from a conversation he overheard as an adolescent, with a woman who was his relative telling her son "Don't ever let a woman tell you what to do", referring to his wife.

The cast is composed entirely of non-professional actors. Copti said: "They're real people that come from the professional background of the characters that they portray. For example, Miri (Meirav Memoresky) is a real nurse, and Walid (Raed Burbara) is a real doctor."

Tim Kuhn was responsible for the cinematography, while the sound design was by Maximilien Gobiet, Pierre Tucat, and Matthias Schwab. Tony Copti, Jiries Copti, Jean Bréhat, Dorothe Beinemeier, Marco Valerio Fusco produced the film, through Fresco Films, Tessalit Productions, Red Balloon Film, and Intramovies. Producers in several countries were involved: Palestine, Germany, France, Italy, and Qatar.

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