TEXAS

9th Annual Houston Palestine Film Festival
Villa Touma by Suha Arraf

Drama/ 2014/ Arabic/ Color/ 87 minutes

Eighteen-year-old Badia arrives at the home of her three spinster aunts in Ramallah after leaving a Catholic orphanage in Jerusalem, where she was raised. The three sisters, Juliette, Violet, and Antoinette, isolated themselves from the rest of the world, and adopted a routine of strictness and sternness. With their young guest in house, the three sisters decide to marry Badia off to a man from a good family. But Badia’s outgoing personality and her secret love for an unsuitable man angers the three sisters, and with that, secrets start to unravel throughout the house.

Date & Place: Saturday, May 9 – 7:00 PM at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Director: Suha Arraf
Writer: Suha Arraf
Cast: Nisreen Faour, Ula Tabari, Cherin Dabis, Maria Zreik