
DRAMA
EID
עיד
About the film
Winner of Best film at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
Eid is a young man from Rahat. He dreams of becoming a playwright and secretly writes a play based on the sexual assault he experienced as a child. He is in love with a married Arab actress who lives in Paris and helps him with his writing. When his parents inform him that they are arranging a marriage for him with a girl he's never met, he has no choice but to marry. When his wife asks him for a child, Eid makes an agreement with her - he will give her a child and in return, he will continue to have his freedom. Eid saves money and travels to Paris, but his lover does not show up. In his solitude, he writes an ending to his play and returns to Rahat.

CAST AND CREW
year: 2024 duration: 90 MIN language: ARABIC AND HEBREW WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES director: YOUSEF ABO MADEGEM writer: YUVAL AHARONI producers: SHLOMI ELKABETZ, HAGGAI ARAD, GALIT CAHLON, ELAD PELEG cast: SHADI MARI, HISHAM SULIMAN, CARLOS GARZOZY, ANGHAM KHALIL, ANAT HADID awards: WINNER OF BEST FILM AT THE JERUSALEM FILM FESTIVAL.
This screening is sponsored by "New Israel Fund"

MEET THE director
Yousef Abo Madegem is known for his film Eid (2024), the first feature-length film made by a Bedouin director. For this film, Yousef won the Best Feauture at the 41st Jerusalem Film Festival. Upon its premiere, Madegem remarked he had worked on the film for ten years, adding that he has ten children “and this film is like my eleventh”.
