Muayad Alayan on His Jerusalem-Set Drama ‘Conversation With the Sea’:’You Cannot Avoid the Almost Two Million Palestinians Living in Israel’

Muayad Alayan on His Jerusalem-Set Drama ‘Conversation With the Sea’:’You Cannot Avoid the Almost Two Million Palestinians Living in Israel’ hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Nov 9, 2026 8:49am PT Muayad Alayan on His Jerusalem-Set Drama ‘Conversation With the Sea’:’You Cannot Avoid the Almost Two Million Palestinians Living in Israel’ The portrayal of Palestinian life in Israel will soon have its Middle East premiere at the Doha Film Festival By Nick Vivarelli Plus Icon Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent @NickVivarelli Latest ‘Fjord’ Director Cristian Mungiu to Attend AFM as Romania Named First-Ever Country of Focus 3 days ago Taylor Swift’s Canceled Vienna Concerts Due to Thwarted Terrorist Plot to Be Subject of Documentary 4 days ago Pamela Anderson Set for Torino Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award (EXCLUSIVE) 4 days ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments Jerusalem-based director Muayad Alayan’s drama “Conversation With the Sea,” about an elderly Palestinian man who is suddenly ordered by an Israeli court to pay a large social security debt pertaining to a long deceased son, will soon get its Middle East launch at the Doha Film Festival . After playing positively in Venice and Toronto, “Conversation With the Sea” will bow for Arab audiences during the Nov.

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19-27 event organized by the Doha Film Institute which, as Alayan points out, “is one of the most supportive institutions for Palestinian films.” Related Stories ‘La Bola Negra’ to Receive International Star Award at Palm Springs International Film Festival (EXCLUSIVE) Actors on the Verge of Losing SAG-AFTRA Health Insurance Find Support via ‘One Job Away’ Instagram Campaign: ‘The System Is Not Working’ The timely political drama is led by veteran Palestinian actor Kamel El Basha (winner of the 2017 best actor prize in Venice for “The Insult”). He plays an elderly widowed baker named Kamal who lives in the Old City of Jerusalem.

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Kamal gets a Kafkaesque notice from an Israeli court demanding payment of a large social security debt allegedly owed by his son Wael who decades earlier drowned in the Red Sea, though no official record of the son’s death can be found. The film’s inciting incident is inspired by true events that happened to the helmer’s family.

According to Alayan they reflect the life of Palestinians living in Jerusalem where “you encounter soldiers and armed settlers on a daily basis,” as the director puts it. Alayan spoke to Variety about “Conversation With the Sea” and its particular relevance in the aftermath of the recent Israeli elections following which Gadi Eisenkot, the leading rival of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, currently has a chance to form Israel’s governing coalition with support from Arab parties that are not formal members of his coalition.

How did this twisted story originate? I read that something similar happened in your family Yes.

Years ago, my father-in-law and my wife received an injunction from the Israeli social security service asking them for a huge amount of money they claimed was owed by my late brother-in-law who passed away by drowning over 20 years ago. It was a shock for the family.

It was really very emotional for everybody. Apparently on their system, he appeared to be alive, so he was taxable.

And the family had to prove his death. So my father-in-law had to go on a road trip to get documents from the hospital to prove that his son was dead.

I was silent for a while. I didn’t have the courage to ask permission to take that incident and write something around it.

Then, a year later, I did. I promised them that this tragic incident would be fictionalized and dramatized e

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