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Inch'Allah

6.3

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Original title

Inch'Allah

Year

2012

Running time

101 min.

Country

Canada

Director

Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

Screenwriter

Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

Cast

Music

Lévon Minassian

Cinematography

Philippe Lavalette

Producer

Co-production Canada-France;

micro_scope, ID Unlimited, July August Productions

Genre

Drama | Arab-Israeli conflict

Synopsis

Chloe is a young Canadian doctor who divides her time between Ramallah, where she works with the Red Crescent, and Jerusalem, where she lives next door to her friend Ava, a young Israeli soldier. Increasingly sensitive to the conflict, Chloe goes daily through the checkpoint between the two cities to get to the refugee camp where she monitors the pregnants of young women. As she becomes friends with Rand, one of her patients, Chloe learns more about life in the occupied territories and gets to spend some time with Rand's family. Torn between the two sides of the conflict, Chloe tries as best she can to build bridges between her friends but suffers from remaining a perpetual foreigner to both sides. Following up her acclaimed debut-feature Le ring, filmmaker Anais Barbeau-Lavalette delivers with Inch'Allah the moving tale a young woman's encounter with war and its everyday life. Avoiding any political agenda, Chloe's story questions how one can internalize a foreign conflict without ...

Rankings Position

#64 Best Canadian Movies of all time

Awards: 2013: Berlin International Film Festival: 2 awards, including FIPRECI

2013: Genie Awards: 5 nominations, including Best Film

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Critics' reviews

"'Inch’Allah' has all the right credentials, including Anais Barbeau-Lavalette’s (...) passionate feeling for the region, but lacks the originality to catch fire, or to go beyond an outsider’s p.o.v."

Deborah Young: The Hollywood Reporter

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Inch'Allah

2012

Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

6.3

(1,155)