SUMMARY
Inspired by a true event, Eyes of a Thief opens at the height of the second Intifada, in 2002. Wounded and on the run, the enigmatic Tareq (Abol Naga) initially eludes Israeli forces when nuns shelter him in a West Bank church crypt. Later captured and imprisoned for a decade, he returns to a world dramatically transformed and sets out to find Nur, the daughter he has never known. It is a search that pitches Tareq into a realm of dangerous secrets and moral uncertainties.
The much-anticipated follow-up to Najjar’s award-winning Pomegranates and Myrrh (2008; BPFF2009), Eyes of a Thief weaves its tale of love and loss into a taut political thriller aimed at the suspicions and sacrifices lurking beneath the surface of contemporary Palestinian society.
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