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A Film by Susan Youssef | 78 min Fiction | Arabic w/ English Subtitles | Produced by S.Y. Films | Coproduction Dubai Media & Entertainment Org, Dubai Film Market, Cinereach & Idioms Film | Palestine / Netherlands / USA / United Arab Emirates
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Awards
Winner Best Film Winner FIPRESCI Winner Best Actress Winner Best Editor at Dubai International Film Festival 2011 Muhr Arab Feature
Winner Camera NOVO at Cinema NOVO Festival 2012
Winner NETPAC for Asian Cinema at Bangalore International Film Festival 2012
Winner Grand Prize in Emerging Narrative at IFP Independent Film Week
Official Selection
Venice Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
Busan International Film Festival
Dubai International Film Festival
Palm Springs International Film Festival
Göteborg International Film Festival
Miami International Film Festival
Human Rights Watch Travelling Film Festival
Movies That Matter Travelling Film Festival
Screenings
2014
Uruguay International Film Festival.
Syracuse University.
Casa Árabe, Madrid.
Boston University.
Casa Árabe, Madrid.
2013
Gaza, at the Institut Français de Gaza, on December 18.
Old Dominion University.
Mostra Mundo Arabe de Cinema.
Jacob Burns Film Center.
Chicago Palestine Film Festival.
Houston Palestine Film Festival.
Providence College with Human Rights Watch Film Festival.
Kenyon College as part of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival.
Arab Film Festival, Texas.
Night Gala film at Birds Eye View in London.
BFI Southbank.
Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University in Durham, NC as part of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as part of the Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival.
Austin Film Society.
Habibi screens at the University of California, Merced as part of the
Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival.
Arab American National Museum in Michigan.
2012
Chennai International Film Festival.
Bangalore International Film Festival.
Bahamas International Film Festival.
Joel D. Valdez Main Library in Tucson as part of the Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival.
reRun Theater in Brooklyn.
Ljubljana International Film Festival.
Jaffa at Al Saraya Theater.
University of Redlands.
Sheffield Cinema Palestino Film Festival.
Brussels Mediterranean Film Festival.
Latin Arab Film Festival.
Toronto Palestine Film Festival.
Boston Palestine Film Festival.
Córdoba African Film Festival.
Oslo Films from the South.
Ro-IFF, Romania.
Dubai International Film Festival Focus.
Brasilia International Film Festival.
Arab Film Festival in Australia.
Franco Palestine Film Festival.
Lincoln Center as part of Human Rights Watch Film Festival.
Ramallah Al Kasaba Theater
Bethlehem Dar Annadwa.
Panorama in Paris.
Turkey Flying Broom International Film Festival.
Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland, CA.
Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival.
Princeton University.
Johns Hopkins University.
University of Massachusetts – Amherst.
Wesleyan University.
Miami International Film Festival
Toronto Human Rights Watch.
International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights, Geneva.
Henderson State University, Arkadelphia.
University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Cinema Novo Festival, Brugge.
Human Rights Watch Film Festival, London.
That Matter Film Festival, The Hague.
Festival Intl du cinéma Méditerranéen de Tétouan, Morocco.
Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil.
FEST, Belgrade.
Aflam with a screening in Abu Dhabi
American Independents in Berlin.
Göteborg International Film Festival
Palm Springs International Film Festival
2011
Arab International Film Festival in Oran.
Busan International Film Festival.
Reykjavik International Film Festival.
Toronto International Film Festival.
Venice Film Festival, Venice Days.
2010
Doha Tribeca Film Festival
IFP Lab Showcase in New York
25 New Faces Tacoma, WA
41st Poetry International Festival in Rotterdamse Schouwburg; Rotterdam, NL
Synopsis
Two students in the West Bank are forced to return home to Gaza, where their love defies tradition. To reach his lover, Qays grafittis poetry across town. ‘Habibi’ is a modern re-telling of the famous ancient Sufi parable ‘Majnun Layla.’ The full Arabic title is ‘Habibi Rasak Kharban,’ which translates as “Darling, something’s wrong with your head.”
Cast
Maisa Abd Elhadi, Kais Nashif, Yosef Abu Wardeh, Amer Khalil.
Crew
Production Designer Bashar Hasuneh, Cinematographer PJ Raval, Editors Man Kit Lam and Susan Youssef, Sound Recording Louis Storme, Sound Design Ryan M. Price, Producer Susan Youssef, and Line Producer Misbah Deeb.
Other info
Habibi won Best Film, FIPRESCI Prize, Best Actress, and Best Editor at the Dubai International Film Festival in the Arab Muhr Competition. Additionally, it received the Camera Novo, the highest prize at the Cinema Novo Festival, Brugge. Habibi is also the recipient of the Grand Prize in the Emerging Narrative program at IFP’s Independent Film Week and is supported by Co-Producer Dubai Entertainment and Media Organization, Zain, Cinereach, Austin Film Society, Princess Grace Foundation – USA, Fonds BKVB, Rooftop Films, Institute of International Education, Jerome Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Funding Exchange, A.M. Qattan Foundation, Idioms Film, Panasonic, fiscal sponsor Women Make Movies, Richard Linklater, and many other generous donors.
