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    Villa Touma

    Arabic poster of the movie Villa Touma
    2014     Romantic drama    
    Israel
    1h 25min
    Original lang: Arabic

    Leaving the Catholic orphanage in Jerusalem where she was raised, eighteen-year-old Badia (Maria Zreik) arrives at the home of her spinster aunts in Ramallah. Crossing the threshold, she finds a house -- and three lives -- frozen in time. The sisters, Juliette (Nisreen Faour), Violet (Ula Tabari), and Antoinette (Cherien Dabis), are the last remnants of the bourgeois Christian minority that stayed on in the city after the war. In their fifties and nearly destitute, they are ruled by Juliette's strict domestic routines and their perception of themselves as classically educated, socially proper ladies of the upper crust. Now unexpectedly saddled with the orphaned daughter of their late brother, the sisters decide to dispense with this upheaval and potential shame by marrying Badia off to a man from a good family. But Badia's spirited temperament -- and her secret love for a very unsuitable man -- rattles the tightly wound sisters, and soon secrets and historical grudges cascade through Villa Touma, resulting in a dramatic shift in the family power structure.

    Directed bySuha Arraf
    Written bySuha Arraf

    Starring

    Nisreen Faour
    Ula Tabari
    Cherien Dabis
    Maria Zreik
    Nicholas Jacob
    Hussein Yassin Mahajne
    Evelyn Kaplun
    Eli Rezik
    Doraid Liddawi
    Diana Zreik
    + MORE

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