Private (15)
- Consumer Advice: Contains infrequent strong language
- Run time: 1 hour 34 mins
- Language: Arabic
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 27th May 2005
- Starring: Hend Ayoub, Mohammad Bakri, Lior Miller
- Directed by: Saverio Costanzo
- Distributor: Metrodome Distribution
Plot Synopsis
Mohammad, his wife and their five children live in an isolated house located halfway between a Palestinian village and an Israeli settlement.
The house finds itself in the crossfire of the two sides and soon becomes a strategic area watching point that the army decides to confiscate. Mohammed refuses to leave his house. Reinforced by his principles against violence, he decides to find a solution living together with the Israeli soldiers.
Living in fear fragments the family relationship - every member reacts in different ways to the soldier's presence in the house and to the father's authority. Just when life seems to be getting back to normal, a new spiral of violence erupts...