#maysaloun hamoud

[swanasource]

Some LGBT+ Films By SWANA Filmmakers

Circumstance (2011). Dir. Maryam Keshavarz Laurence Anyways (2012). Dir. Xavier Dolan Appropriate Behaviour (2014). Dir. Desiree Akhavan In Between (2016). Dir. Maysaloun Hamoud No Hard Feelings (2020). Dir. Faraz Shariat Breaking Fast (2021). Dir. Mike Mosallam Burning Days (2022). Dir. Emin Alper The Blue Caftan (2022). Dir. Maryam Touzani El Houb (2022). Dir. Shariff Nasr The Persian Version (2023). Dir. Maryam Keshavarz

[oldfilmsflicker]

 Bar Baḥ, 2016 (dir. Maysaloun Hamoud)

[akajustmerry]

anyways, instead of focusing all your energy on calling out Succession and the Last of Us for being anti-palestinian, here's some of my favourite media made by Palestinians 🇵🇸 and their allies...

Salt of this Sea (2008). Dir. Annemarie Jacir. Heist film set in Palestine about 2 Palestinians who help a Palestinian American woman rob a British bank who refused to give her the money her grandfather left her.

Netflix original series, Mo, created by Mo Amer. Dramedy about Mo, a Palestinian American without papers, trying to stay out of trouble until his US citizenship is approved (he's already been waiting for 12 years). This just got renewed for a second season!!!!

Farha (2021). Dir. Darin J. Sallam. Coming of age story about a 14 year old girl trying to survive the Nakba in 1948. Tw: settler colonial violence.

In Between (2016). Dir. Maysaloun Hamoud. A film about 3 Palestinian women, one of whom is queer, in their 20s living under occupation. Heart-warming story about friendship, solidarity and revenge. Tw: sexual assault.

In Vitro (2019). Dir. Larissa Sansour. Breathtaking short scifi film set in a future where Bethlehem has been destroyed by an ecological disaster and two scientists from different generations are trying to remember what happened. This film is pure poetry and I think about it constantly.

It Must Be Heaven (2019). Dir. Elia Sulieman. A charmingly absurdist film about Elia Sulieman seeing parallels to Palestine everywhere he goes as he tries to make a film about his homeland.

The Crossing (2017). Dir. Ameen Nayfeh. Short film about Palestinian siblings trying to cross an Israeli checkpoint to visit their grandparents.

Ramy. Episode 3 of season 3: 'American Cigarettes'. Far and away the best episode of TV of 2022, and also directed by Annemarie Jacir. Ramy goes to occupied Palestine to make a diamond deal with some Israeli brokers, but his horniness takes him to The Other Side. I think about this episode almost everyday, it's unlike anything I've ever seen.

Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis. A book of interviews and essays conducted by Angela Davis on how systems of racism and colonial violence are all connected, and how solidarity between communities of colour are vital, using the long-standing allyship between Palestinians, Aboriginal peoples and Black Americans as case studies.

As fine and good as it is to call out Zionism in media, rmr to also support Palestinians, their work and their art. Feel free to suggest more ❤️

[nulfaga]

do you have any recommendations for female character writing in fiction? tired of so many shows and games with only interesting men

honestly i've been watching a lot of old shit lately and just having to turn off the part of my brain that registers misogyny so. thank you for this ask! it's reminding me to actively seek out intentional, joyful, complex, weird, sensual writing by and about women

that said i don't have too many shows or things i can wholeheartedly recommend... ofc there's fleabag and russian doll, & on my watchlist are i may destroy you and we are lady parts. also lesbian films featuring and/or directed by woc like saving face, watermelon woman, in between (dir. by maysaloun hamoud. this one is top 5 on my watchlist i'm convinced it'll change me)

you threw me for a loop mentioning games ngl. i'm not sure i've played any games where the most prominent creative voices were those of women...i definitely haven't encountered a game where the women characters were as fascinating and/or magnetic and/or gross and/or butch and/or flawed as i wanted, or where they resembled the women in my life in any way. </3

in case you're a reader, i can recommend:

-transcendent kingdom by yaa gyasi

-the fifth season by n.k. jemisin

-for thy great pain have mercy on my little pain by victoria mckenzie

-breasts and eggs by mieko kawakami

(and p.s. i know you specified fiction but for an expansive hopeful portrait of gay/trans/queer womanhood please consider: stone butch blues, zami: a new spelling of my name, all about love, and audre lorde's "revolutionary hope" interview w/ james baldwin <3)

[jihadibaddie123]

This interview made my blood boil.

[suimovies]

“In Between”

directed by Maysaloun Hamoud

[movie--posters]

[asparoh]

Salma, Nour and Leila.

Go have your heart broken.

[pacingmusings]

Seen in 2018:

In Between (Maysaloun Hamoud), 2016

[lgbtcinema]

IN BETWEEN (2017) Official Trailer - In Between follows the lives of three strong, independent minded Israeli-Palestinian women sharing an apartment in Tel Aviv. Away from the constraints of their families and enforced tradition, they find themselves ‘in between’ the free and unfettered lives they’re aspiring to lead and the restrictions still imposed on them by a the country and their families.

[fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors]

November  2017 U.S. Theatrical Film Releases Directed By Women

November 3

Battlecreek dir. Alison Eastwood (LIMITED) It Happened in L.A. dir. Michelle Morgan (LIMITED) Lady Bird dir. Greta Gerwig (LIMITED) The Light of the Moon dir. Jessica M. Thompson (LIMITED) Most Beautiful Island dir. Ana Asensio (LIMITED)

November 6

The Secret Life of Lance Letscher dir. Sandra Adair (LIMITED)

November 10

In Between dir. Maysaloun Hamoud (LIMITED)

November 17

Big Sonia dir. Leah Warshawski & Todd Soliday (LIMITED) Mudbound dir. Dee Rees (LIMITED) + Netflix

November 24

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story dir. Alexandra Dean (LIMITED)

[backroadwanderer]

Movie recommendation: Bar Bahar (In Between) by Maysaloun Hamoud

I’d strongly recommend this film to anyone who wants to experience an honest, tough, and engaging film about three Palestinian women walking that line between family and tradition and living the lives they want.

I used to watch a lot of foreign language films and this film is a good reminder as to why. Watch films from other countries to challenge your perceptions, experience different cultures, and empathize with others.

[mijardinbipolar]

Bar Bahar

[movieposteroftheday]

Festival poster for IN BETWEEN (BAR BAHAR) (Maysaloun Hamoud, Israel, 2016)

Designer: TBD

Poster source: Film Movement

IN BETWEEN—“A lively and distinctly modern dramedy by the Palestinian female director Maysaloun Hamoud”—kicks off Film Movement’s 15th Anniversary Celebration at the Museum of Moving Image tonight. The series runs through July 2. See the full program here.

[ciaomilhouse]

Does anyone know where i can watch Bar Bahar/ In between/ libere disobbedienti innamorate?