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2011 Sundance Predictions: Susan Youssef’s Habibi Rasak Kharban

IFP Independent Filmmaker Lab, Cinereach, and even Richard Linklater (who’ll be at the fest this year presenting the 20th year anniversary projection of Slackers) have all had a helping hand in writer/director Susan Youssef’s Habibi Rasak Kharban. Youssef, a profiled Filmmaker Magazine 25 New Face should be hitting Park City once again – she screened one of her shorts at the fest.

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#14. Habibi Rasak Kharban – Susan Youssef

IFP Independent Filmmaker Lab, Cinereach, and even Richard Linklater (who’ll be at the fest this year presenting the 20th year anniversary projection of Slackers) have all had a helping hand in writer/director Susan Youssef’s Habibi Rasak Kharban. Youssef, a profiled Filmmaker Magazine 25 New Face should be hitting Park City once again – she screened one of her shorts at the fest. Expect this to claim a World Dramatic Competition spot.

This tells the story of a forbidden love in Gaza. The film is a modern re-telling of the famous ancient Sufi parable Majnun Layla and is the first full-length narrative set in Gaza in over 15 years.

* Producers: Susan Youssef
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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