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The Gate of Sun

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The Gate of Sun
Directed byYousry Nasrallah
Written byYousry Nasrallah
Elias Khoury
Muhammad Suwaid
Produced byHumbert Balsan
StarringHiam Abbass
Orwa Nyrabia
CinematographySamir Bahzan
Edited byLuc Barnier
Release date
  • 18 May 2004 (2004-05-18)
Running time
278 minutes
CountriesEgypt
France
LanguageArabic

The Gate of Sun (Arabic: باب الشمس, translit. Bab el shams, French: La Porte du soleil) is a 2004 French-Egyptian war film directed by Yousry Nasrallah and based on the novel by Elias Khoury. It was screened out of competition at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Plot

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The film spans 50 years of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict with a central group of Palestinian refugees who were expelled from the Galilee in 1948.[2][3]

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Gate of Sun". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
  2. ^ Doherty, Benjamin (18 April 2005). "Film review: Door to the Sun". The Electronic Intifada. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
  3. ^ "Elias Khoury's Gate of the Sun". Arab Hyphen. 16 April 2013. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
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