Synopsis
Mona’s wedding day is the saddest day of her life.
She knows that once she crosses into Syria she can never return home to Israel, her village, or her family. From that moment on, she is destined to live the rest of her life in Damascus, an intimidating, unfamiliar city. The husband with whom she’ll be sharing her life may be a popular television star, but Mona doesn’t know a thing about him.
“The Syrian Bride” is the story of a marriage, set in the village, Majdal Shams, in the Israeli occupied Golan Heights near the border between Israel and Syria. It’s told from the point of view of Amal, Mona’s older sister, a free spirit trapped in a foreign land and body, a woman who dreams of other times and places. Mona’s crisis is a turning point in her sister’s life. From today onward she can never go back to what she was before.
“The Syrian Bride” is the story of how a family on the brink of disintegration is put to the test. There is both affinity and alienation, yet all around them peopl...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (11)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : MACT Productions
- Foreign production companies : Eran Riklis Productions, Neue Impuls Film Productionsgeselleschaft
- French distribution : Océan Films Distribution
Full credits (13)
- Executive Producer : Antoine De Clermont-Tonnerre
- Screenwriters : Eran Riklis, Suha Arraf
- Director of Photography : Michael Wiesweg
- Music Composer : Cyril Morin
- Editor : Tova Ascher
- Sound Recordist : Gil Toren
- Costume designer : Inbal Shuki
- Foreign Producer : Yifat Prestelnik
- Production Manager : Johannes Rexin
- Press Attaché (film) : Robert Schlockoff
- Production Designer : Avi Fahima
- Casting : Yael Aviv
- Sound Mixer : Ashi Milo
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : Arabic, Hebrew, English
- Coproducer countries : France, Israel, Germany
- Original French-language productions : No