3000 Nights

[3][4] Layal is a young schoolteacher who lives with her husband, Farid in the occupied West Bank town of Nablus, Palestine.They are preparing to leave for Canada in search of a new life when Layal is arrested and falsely accused of helping a teenage boy suspected of attacking a military checkpoint.Traumatized and betrayed, Layal hits rock bottom but with the support of the women around her, she finds the strength to stand up for herself and fight to have her child.At the infirmary in the men's section of the penitentiary, she meets Ayman, an imprisoned Palestinian doctor who helps her cope and find love again.The film received generally positive reviews, with the Middle East Eye calling it "is an unforgettable human portrait of a group of Palestinian women in Israel’s Ramla prison in the 1980s.
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