Polygraph

2020 | Narrative Short | 20min
by Samira Saraya
SYNOPSIS

Yasmine, an openly lesbian Palestinian nurse living in Tel Aviv, finds out that her lover has been reporting on their relationship.

SUMMARY

Yasmine, an openly lesbian Palestinian nurse living in Tel Aviv, finds out that her lover, Or, an intelligence officer in the Israeli army has been reporting on their relationship. Their liaison is further strained by the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict and by Yasmine’s sister’s visit who arrives from the West Bank, not knowing that she is going to meet the occupying enemy at her own sister’s house.

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