Happy Holidays

• Scandar Copti
• 120 min
• Palestine, Germany, France, Italy, Qatar
• 2024
• Fiction

Nuanced, smart, and Venice-awarded episodic film depicting generational, gender, and cultural clashes through the lens of two families in contemporary Jerusalem and Haifa.
A Jewish-Palestinian couple grapples with an abortion, a family faces tricky financial difficulties, one daughter struggles with depression while another tries to hide a secret that could ruin her new relationship with a "modern" young man. Starting with a car crash during the Purim celebration and ending with the siren wailing on Memorial Day (Yom Hazikaron), Scandar Copti directs with a light touch and fine character work, portraying a system and daily life where not only cultural clashes between Israelis and Palestinians constantly arise, but also where old and young generations fail to connect, and where patriarchal structures stubbornly linger in everyone’s lives.


- Camilla Larsson

• Drama
• Romantik
• Samhälle
• Religion
• Politik
• Relationer
• Familj
• Stad