Salt of This Sea is Palestine’s 2009 Academy Awards official submission to the Foreign-Language Film category. It’s directed by Annemarie Jacir and stars Suheir Hammad, the well known Palestinian-American poet, as a woman who goes back to Palestine to reclaim her grandfather’s savings that were frozen in a bank in Jaffa when he was exiled in 1948.
This film has been roaming around the festival circuit but I don’t believe it’s been picked up for a wider release. Hopefully it does gain some traction here in the US.
I love this chicks poetry ! And i would love to see this movie. Pretty interesting stuff !