Wedding in Galilee

A landmark of Palestinian cinema by Michel Khleifi. In a Palestinian village in the Galilee under Israeli military rule and curfew, the village head (mukhtar) asks the military governor for permission to hold a traditional wedding for his son.

Permission is granted on one condition: that the governor and his officers attend as guests. Over the course of the celebration, tensions between the generations, between men and women, and between the villagers and the occupiers come to the surface. The film won the International Critics’ Prize at Cannes in 1987.