IN BETWEEN

The personal is the political in Maysaloun Hamoud’s vibrant, taboo-breaking debut feature, tracking the lives of three young Palestinian-Israeli women – hard-partying lawyer Laila (Mouna Hawa), lesbian DJ Salma (Sana Jammelieh) and devout student Nour (Shaden Kanboura). The film reveals how patriarchal values clash with the desires of its female characters to lead more emancipated lives. Tom Dawson