The Reports on Sarah and Saleem

The Reports on Sarah and Saleem (2018)

التقارير حول سارة وسليم

The affair of a married Palestinian man and a married Israeli woman in Jerusalem takes a dangerous political dimension when they are spotted in the wrong place at the wrong time, leaving them to deal with more than their broken marriages.

Date of release
2018-03-15
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (48)
Runtime
2h 7m
Genres
Drama
Director
Muayad Alayan

Casting

Interesting facts

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The Reports on Sarah and Saleem is a 2018 international co-production drama film directed by Palestinian filmmaker Muayad Alayan.

Production

The film is Palestininian filmmaker Muayad Alayan's second feature film as director, after Love, Theft and Other Entanglements (2015). Both films were written by his brother, Rami Alayan. Muayad Alayan (born 1985) is a Jerusalem-based filmmaker and cinematographer. He studied film in San Francisco, where his 2005 graduate project, a documentary film called Exiles in Jerusalem, won the Kodak Award.

The cast were carefully chosen: "We wanted the best actors for the roles, but we also wanted actors who in terms of the politics were people who would be okay working for us." (Muayad Alayan). Israeli actor Ishai Golan organises campaigns protesting against theatres that operate in Israeli settlements.

During filming in Bethlehem, in the summer of 2017, Israeli military vehicles came and picked up the director, line producer, and art director for checks. After several hours, they told the filmmakers that even though they were filming in Palestinian territory (the West Bank), they had to let them know.

It is spoken in Arabic, Hebrew, and English, and is subtitled.

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