Laila (Mouna Hawa), Salma (Sana Jammalieh) and Nour (Shaden Kanboura) live together in an apartment in trendy Tel Aviv. During the day, Laila works as a lawyer, at night she parties hard in the city’s hottest nightspots. Salma works nights as a barwoman and DJ, while the younger Muslim Nour has moved to the city from her rural home to study.
The three women share more than just an apartment. As Palestinians living in Israel, they are constantly torn between the traditional values they were brought up with and the freedom promised by the progressive urban lifestyle. They speak fluent Hebrew and Arabic and physically differ little from their Jewish contemporaries. But in their family lives and romantic relationships, they are forever caught between new and old values and traditional and (supposedly) liberal roles that frequently require them to perform a delicate balancing act.
The feature film debut by Arab-Israeli director Maysaloun Hamoud follows on from a genre established by such hit series as Sex and the City and Girls. In this case, however, the day-to-day reality of independent, sexually active women in a vibrant urban setting is connected with the specific situation of the Arab-Israeli protagonists and the Palestinian underground scene, a subject that has so far received little coverage in the media.

In cooperation with medica modiale

Film series In This Together

Awards for ›In Between‹
NETPAC Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere – Toronto International Film Festival 2016 | Fedeora Award for Artistic Achievement in an Israeli Feature Film & Danny Lerner Award for a Debut Feature Film – Haifa International Film Festival 2016 | EROSKI Youth Award & TVE – Another Look Award & CICAE Award & Sebastiane Award – San Sebastian Film Festival 2016