David and Fatima (120min, USA)
Directed by: Alain Zaloum
Feature
Starring: Tony Curtis and Martin Landau
Synopsis
Jerusalem: A city of contrasts and conflicts, where Arabs, Jews, Christians and Muslims
all mix but seldom mingle. This is where David, a young Israeli Jew, and Fatima, a beautiful
Palestinian Muslim girl, meet and fall in love. But in a volatile land that is steeped in tradition
and soaked in blood, their love is forbidden. Despite their best efforts to keep their romance
a secret, their friends and families find out the truth, and their reactions are swift and violent.
David and Fatima must act quickly to avoid losing each other forever. Willing to risk all for the
sake of love, they elope in a land where marriage between them is impossible and the consequences
of being together - deadly. In this dramatic story of love, destiny, and the search for peace in the
 Holy Land, David and Fatima struggle to beat the odds and in doing so challenge not only their
families but Fate itself.