Let It Be Morning (2021)

Original title

Vayehi Boker

Directed by

Eran Kolirin

Genre

drama film

Country

Israel

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

16

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Palestinian man returns to his childhood village in Israel for a wedding. He becomes trapped there as the town is sealed off by a military checkpoint, forcing him to confront his fractured family and identity.

slow-burnmelancholiccontemplativesubduedcharacter-drivenrestrainedpersonalquietly tense

What happens

Let It Be Morning (Hebrew: ויהי בוקר, romanized: Vayehi Boker, Arabic: فليكن صباحا, romanized: faliyakun ṣabāḥan) is a 2021 drama film directed by Eran Kolirin, based on the Hebrew-language novel Let It Be Morning by Palestinian author Sayed Kashua. It was produced by Dori Media of Israel, in co-production with France's Les Films du Poisson. The cast is predominately Palestinian and most of the language is Arabic. In June 2021, the film was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. The Palestinian cast opposed the classification of the film as "Israeli," and withdrew from the Cannes Film Festival in protest. Israel selected the film as its entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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