FREE ZONE

  • Amos Gitaï
  • Fiction
  • 2005
  • 1h30

Rebecca (Natalie Portman), an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her engagement. She
gets into a cab driven by Hanna (Hanna Laslo), an Israeli. But Hanna is on her way to Jordan, to the Free Zone, to pick up a large sum of money that “the American”, her husband’s partner, owes them. Rebecca persuades Hanna to take her along. When they reach the Free Zone, Leila (Hiam Abbass), a Palestinian, explains that the American isn’t there and that the money has vanished….

Screenplay
  • Amos Gitai
  • Marie José SANSELME
Photography
  • Laurent Brunet
Sound
  • Michel Kharat
Set design
  • Miguel Markin
Costumes
  • Aline Stern
Editing
  • Isabelle Ingold
  • Yann Dedet
Production
  • Agat Films
  • Nicolas Blanc
Coproduction
  • AGAV FILMS
  • AGAT FILMS & CIE
  • AGAV HAFAKOT HAMMON HAFAKOT
  • ARTEMIS PRODUCTION
  • CINEART
  • SCOPE INVEST
  • GOLEM
  • ARTE FRANCE CINÉMA
Distribution Bac Films
Theatrical release 11/09/2005
International seller Bac Films

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