All three women must learn how to accept themselves in the face of mounting pressure from their loved ones to conform. When her conservative fiancé visits, however, he is threatened by her liberal roommates, and pressures her to move back to marry him immediately. Nur is a college student who observes Islamic tradition and moves in with Lalia and Salma to be close to the university. Salma, a DJ and bartender faces a difficult moment as she comes out as gay to her traditional Christian family. Lalia, a criminal lawyer who likes to party after work, has found love with a modern Muslim man who can’t quite accept all sides of her. Lalia (Mouna Hawa), Salma (Sana Jammelieh), and Nur (Shaden Kanboura) are roommates living in Tel Aviv. In Maysaloun Hamoud’s directorial debut, she tells the story of three Palestinian women living in Israeli society struggling with being accepted and deviating from the expectations of their culture. The film is not currently available online but it can be purchased on DVD & Blu-ray. He and Sayyid begin to get close and strike up an intimate relationship that makes Mo jealous and angry and pushes Mo deeper into gang life while pushing the brothers further and further apart. He is eventually offered a “clean” job as a photography assistant for his friend Sayyid.
As their situation quickly goes from bad to worse, Rash dreams of finding his way out of the gang. But Mo wants to be like Rash and follows in his footsteps into a world that is far from glamorous. Rash is a low level drug dealer who uses his earnings to pay for small luxuries for them while fiercely protecting his younger brother. In this drama from Sally El Hosaini, two teenage brothers named Mo and Rashid (AKA Rash), who are of Egyptian descent and live with their parents in Hackney, find themselves tangled up in the dark world of drugs and gangs.