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Written by Nader Rizq and directed by Evan Riklis, “Zaytoun” is rooted in the never-ending conflict between Israel and Palestine .
It is set in Lebanon
1982 at the fall of Beirut .
American actor Stephen Dorff (“World
Trade Center
Abdallah El Akai is Fahed, a Palestinian boy who wants to
visit his ancestral home on the West Bank .
When Fahed gives some water to Yoni out of pity, he says,
“Let me out, and I’ll take you with me.”
When Yoni seizes the prison cell keys, Fahed shoots him.
Yoni nevertheless overpowers the boy, who Cleverly swallows the key to Yoni’s handcuffs,
binding the man and boy in an uncomfortable relationship as Yoni tries to make
his way back to Israel
and to Fahed’s homeland.
“Zaytoun” is one harrowing escape after the other as man and
boy make their way across the desert, eluding soldiers, police, land mines, all
the while Fahed lugging a small tree which he hopes to plant in his homeland.
The tree symbolizes a fragile hope for future peace between Muslims and Jews. “Zaytoun’
drives home the point it will not be easy.
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