WHEN I SAW YOU
by Annemarie Jacir
2012 | Drama | 96 min
(Arabic with English subtitles)
April 16-25, 2014
Tickets
We’re excited to bring back Annemarie Jacir’s critically acclaimed drama
to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston this spring!
The year is 1967. In Harir camp in Jordan, 11-year-old Tarek (first-time actor
) and his mother Ghaydaa (Ruba Blal) must settle into their scant refugee housing after fleeing from their home in war-torn Palestine. During the chaos of crossing the border, Tarek is separated from his father, and after arriving in Jordan, he becomes desperate to reunite with him.
Tarek’s determination and his free-spirited curiosity lead him to discover a group of people who give him hope, while Ghaydaa struggles with the heartrending challenges of having to raise her child as a refugee far from the stability and normalcy they were forced to leave behind.
A touching, beautiful masterpiece of a film, an ode to the displaced the world over and to any of us who have ever lived somewhere
other than our own birth country, yearning for home.” ~ Huffington Post
A poetic tour de force! ~ Toronto International Film Festival
One of the best works to come out of the current explosion in filmmaking in the Middle East! ~ Indiewire
WHEN I SAW YOU will be screened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston at throughout the week of April 16-25, 2014.
Purchase tickets online or at the MFA box office.
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