The Syrian Bride --- NYC film debut December 19, 2005

Note: NOT a zionist film, more like a middle eastern Romeo & Juliet

Synopsis: Politics tears a family apart in an attempted transnational marriage between a Syrian bride and her Israeli groom.

"The tensions and stresses of this one family and their social situation serve as a microcosm of the larger identity and political crisis facing the Druze of the occupied Golan and, beyond that, the wider Middle East."
-The Daily Star, Lebanese newspaper

Language: Arabic with English subtitles

Movie website: http://www.syrianbride.com/english.html

Film screenings at Makor. Tickets available here.