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YALLA PARKOUR

Genre
Documentary
Running time
89 minutes
Year
2024
Language
Arabic and Swedish
Subtitle
English and Arabic
Country
Sweden, Palestine, Qatar and Saudi Arabia
Director
Areeb Zuaiter
Bio
Producer
Basel Mawlawi
Cast
Areeb Zuaiter, Ahmad Matar
Scriptwriter
Areeb Zuaiter, Phil Jandaly

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Tue 10. Dec
Culture Square - Cinema 5
5:15 PM - 6:49 PM
Price: 40 SAR
Fri 13. Dec
Culture Square - Cinema 5
6:30 PM - 8:04 PM
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One of Zuaiter’s strongest memories of her mother is her radiant smile as a young woman on the beach in Gaza on one of the family’s regular holidays to Palestine. Her cousins would mock Areeb’s “outsider” accent, but according to her mother, this was where she belonged. From her current home in the US, Zuaiter combs the web for images that evoke something of her mother and finds teenager Ahmed Matar and his friends, a parkour team who use the ruins of Gaza’s bombed buildings as obstacle courses, laughing for joy against a background of explosions. She tracks Ahmed down online and the two become friends; meanwhile, he is determined that parkour will be his route out of the prison their shared homeland has become.

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