• Japan Premiere

Competition

Amira

Director: Mohamed DIAB

2021｜France, Egypt, Jordan, UAE, Saudi Arabia｜98min｜Language: Arabic, Hebrew｜Subtitles: English, Japanese

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Starring

Saba MUBARAK
Tara ABBOUD
Ali SULEIMAN
Ziad BAKRI

Synopsis

Amira (Tara ABBOUD), a 17-year-old Palestinian girl, has grown up believing that she was conceived with the smuggled sperm of her father Nawar (Ali SULEIMAN), a political prisoner serving time in an Israeli prison. Despite never having lived with him, she adores him and considers herself the daughter of a hero, a feeling reinforced by the fact that his absence in her life has been overcompensated with the love and affection from his extended family. However her blood lineage proves to be a lie as revealed when Nawar asks her mother Warda (Saba MUBARAK) to bear another child using the same method and a DNA test done as part of insemination reveals that he is sterile. This causes a crisis for the family as the people around them turn on Warda and Amira’s sense of self is destroyed. She soon goes on a search for her real father...

[Jason MAHER]

• Competition
• Aloners
• Amira
• Anita
• Angry Son
• Barbarian Invasion
• Big Night
• Days Before the Millennium
• The First Girl I Loved
• The Girl on a Bulldozer
• Journey to the West
• Mama’s Affair
• No Land's Man
• Red Pomegranate
• The Sales Girl
• Shankar’s Fairies