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HAPPY HOLIDAYS
YINAD ALIKU

• Director: Scandar Copti
• PALESTINE, GERMANY, FRANCE, ITALY, QATAR  / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 123’ / Arabic, Hebrew; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Scandar Copti
• Director of Photography: Tim Kuhn
• Editing: Scandar Copti
• Music: Pascal Lemercier
• Cast: Manar Shehab, Wafaa Aoun, Meirav Memoresky, Toufic Danial
• Producer: Tony Copti, Jiries Copti, Dorothe Beinemeier, Jean Bréhat, Marco Valerio Fusco, Micaela Fusco
• Production Co.: Fresco Films, Red Balloon Film, Tessalit Productions, Intramovies
• World Sales: Indie Sales

2024 Venice Best Screenplay–Orizzonti
2024 Thessaloniki Best Feature
2024 Marrakech Grand Prize, Best Actress
2025 Tromsø Best Film

Split into four chapters, Happy Holidays follows an ensemble of characters – Arab and Jewish alike – living in contemporary Haifa. Family secrets, lies, domestic tensions, and untold truths are exposed after a minor accident, and four interconnected characters share their unique realities, highlighting the complexities and conflicts between genders, generations, and cultures separated by deep-set a rift: Rami, a Palestinian from Haifa; his mother, Hanan; his sister, Fifi; and Miri whose sister is pregnant from Rami. Premiering at Venice Film Festival, this is the second feature from director Scandar Copti, whose Ajami won the Human Rights in Cinema Award at Istanbul Film Festival in 2010.

* In accordance with Article 7 of the Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019, cinema films that have not been reviewed and classified can only be screened in festivals, special screenings and similar cultural and artistic events with an 18+ age restriction.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.