Life Sentences
DOCUMENTARY FILMS
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1h 36m
An Arab man marries a Jewish woman. They live in quiet harmony within the Arab-Jewish community with their son and daughter. After it is discovered that the father is behind dozens of myserious terror attacks in the late 1960s, the mother flees the country with her kids to the other side of the world and settles in Montreal’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. When they grow up, the two children will take opposite paths.
Year: 2013
Languages: Hebrew & Arabic, English subtitles
Directors: Nurit Kedar, Yaron Shani
Producer: Nurit Kedar
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