THE ATTACK
| 2013 – 102′ – Drama – A Franco-Belgian co-production –
Co-written by Ziad Doueiri and Joelle Touma.
Directed by Ziad Doueiri.
Based on Yasmina Khadra’s Novel.
Starring Ali Suliman, Karim Saleh, Reymond Amsalem, Uri Gavriel .
Official Selections: COLCOA French Film Festival (Winner COLCOA Audience Award), Toronto International Film Festival, San Sebastian International Film Festival, Telluride International Film Festival.
In Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Films release.|
Trailer
Dr. Amin Jaafari is an Israeli Palestinian surgeon, fully assimilated into Tel Aviv society. He has a loving wife, an exemplary career, and many Jewish friends. But his picture-perfect life is turned upside down when a suicide bombing in a restaurant leaves nineteen dead, and the Israeli police inform him that his wife Sihem, who also died in the explosion, was responsible. Convinced of her innocence, Amin abandons the relative security of his adopted homeland and enters the Palestinian territories in pursuit of the truth. Once there, he finds himself in ever more dangerous places and situations. Determined, he presses on seeking answers to questions he never thought he would be asking.