Sand Storm

A sympathetic but clear-eyed look at the inequalities that entrap women (and the men they love and resent) in a Bedouin village. Variety

Beneath the Negev-desert’s big sky, a feminist drama about the right to choose ones destiny plays out in a small Bedouin society. When patar familias Suliman marries his second wife, Jalilia unwillingly has to share her power with the new woman. When they discover that the couple’s oldest daughter Layla has a secret boyfriend in school, Jalilia has the strongest reaction. She tries to come to Layla’s rescue, but is too late. Among the men in the clan, Suliman is powerless, and to fix his daughter’s faux pas, he is forced to make a fateful decision on behalf of his daughter.

After the screening Saturday 16th at 1.30 pm. there will be a conversation about forced marriages.