Solomon's Stone

حجر سليمان

Solomon's Stone (Hajar Suleiman)

Hussein, a Palestinian young man, receives a letter from the Israeli post office to appear in person to receive a package. He has to pay the sum of 20.000 $ US dollars in order to collect that package. Hussein’s curiosity to find out what the package contains drives him to sell everything he owns, despite the outright rejection of his mother, the matter that changes their lives afterwards.
The story is adapted from the novel Blue Light by Hussein Barghouty.

^{short film, Ramzi Maqdisi, Palestine/Spain 2015, 25 min, color, digital, Arabic with Engl. or French ST
with Ramzi Maqdisi, Kamek Basha, Reem Talahmi, Dauod Totah, Amer Kalil et at.| Writer Ramzi Maqdisi| Director Ramzi Maqdisi | Exectuive Producer Iyas Jubeh | Assistant Producers Laia Jornet Aixarch, Ramzi Abu Asab | Director of Photography Juan Messeguer Navarro | Sound Olivier Claude | Editor Aurelién Lambert}

From the press
Ramzi Maqdisi’s black-comedy short, “Solomon’s Stone,” could be considered a parable of present-day Jerusalem and the nationalistic politics fueling the violent dynamic between Israel and the Palestinians, occupier and occupied. (Palestine Square) read full article