Salt of this Sea

Milh Hadha Al-Bahr
Directed by	Annemarie Jacir
Written by	Annemarie Jacir
Produced by	Jacques Bidou [Wikidata] Marianne Dumoulin [Wikidata]
Starring	Suheir Hammad Saleh Bakri
Cinematography	Benoît Chamaillard
Edited by	Michèle Hubinon
Music by	Kamran Rastegar
Production companies	Rotana Film Production JBA Production Philistine Films Thelma Film AG Louverture Films Clarity World Films Augustus Films TSR Mediapro^[3]
Distributed by	Rotana Studios Pyramide Distribution
Release date	May 16, 2008 (2008-05-16) (Cannes^[1])
Running time	109 min.
Countries	France Israel Palestine United States Netherlands Spain Belgium Switzerland^[2]
Language	Arabic

Salt of this Sea (Arabic: ملح هذا البحر, romanized: Milh hadha al-bahr) is a 2008 Palestinian film directed by Annemarie Jacir and was an Official Selection of the Cannes International Film Festival in 2008. It is Palestine's submission to the 81st Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.^[4] The film stars Palestinian-American poet Suheir Hammad as Soraya, an American-born Palestinian woman, who heads to Israel and Palestine on a quest to reclaim her family's home and money that were taken during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. A young Saleh Bakri also stars in the film in his first role in an Arab film.

Awards

International Federation of Film Critics, 2008

Osians Asian & Arab Film Festival, 2008

Traverse City Film Festival, 2009

Oran International Festival of Arab Cinema, 2009

Journées cinématographiques de Carthage, 2008

Dubai International Film Festival, 2008

Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival 2009

Houston Palestine Film Festival, 2009

Chicago Palestine Film Festival, 2009

Cairo Refugee Film Festival, 2009

Toronto Palestine Film Festival, 2008

FOR BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM, 2008

Grand Prix Best Screenplay, 2007

San Sebastian Film Festival, 2007

See also