At the 55th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), she stars in Annemarie Jacir’s Palestine 36 and Malek Bensmaïl’s fiction debut The Arab, which world premiered at the Dutch festival on Saturday. On Sunday evening, she appeared in an IFFR “Big Talk” together with Italian actress and director Valeria Golino (Rain Man, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Hot Shots!, Fuori).
But of course, politics and identity also came up. Growing up as a Palestinian woman, with “a huge inheritance of injustice,” she said acting became a “space of freedom” from pressure. Her goal was, “being a woman that is making choices that go against the traditions that are inherited … from one generation to another, trying to exist as a woman for myself and not for the others, in…
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