{"id":22113,"date":"2025-05-23T15:49:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T15:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=22113"},"modified":"2026-01-23T17:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:30:51","slug":"happy-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/happy-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY HOLIDAYS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NOW PLAYING IN THEATERS.\u00a0 COMING TO DIGITAL ON MARCH 6, 2026.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

HAPPY HOLIDAYS<\/h2>\n

| 2025 – 124′ – A Palestine\/Germany\/France Co-production – Drama.
\nWritten by: Scandar Copti.
\nDirected by:\u00a0Scandar Copti.
\nStarring:\u00a0Manar Shehab,\u00a0Toufic Danial,\u00a0Wafa Aoun,\u00a0Meirav Memoresky,\u00a0Imad Ourani.
\nOfficial Selection Venice International Film Festival 2024 (Winner Best Screenplay), Toronto International Film Festival 2024.
\nIn Arabic & Hebrew with English subtitles.
\nA Film Movement release. |<\/span><\/p>\n

While celebrating Purim at her university in Jerusalem, Fifi, a young Palestinian woman is hospitalized following a car accident. Though her injuries are minor, she fears her newfound freedom at school will now come under the scrutiny of her conservative parents. Meanwhile, back in Haifa, Fifi\u2019s older brother Rami panics as he faces his own personal crisis – Shirley, his Jewish girlfriend, reveals she is pregnant and plans to carry the baby to term. Behind closed doors, the family’s deep financial troubles come into focus while Hanan, Fifi and Rami’s mother, plans her eldest daughter’s wedding.\u00a0Led by an incredible cast of mostly non-professional actors, Happy Holidays is a dynamic, sociopolitical family saga which thoughtfully considers the myriad intricacies of Israeli Arab life. Directed by Oscar-nominated Palestinian filmmaker Scandar Copti (Ajami), the family\u2019s stories and everyday anxieties weave together a collective portrait of a pressurized society, and \u201cspeak to a larger culture of silence, shame, social pressure and rampant prejudice\u201d (Variety).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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NOW PLAYING IN THEATERS.\u00a0 COMING TO DIGITAL ON MARCH 6, 2026. HAPPY HOLIDAYS | 2025 – 124′ – A Palestine\/Germany\/France Co-production – Drama. Written by: Scandar Copti. Directed by:\u00a0Scandar Copti. Starring:\u00a0Manar Shehab,\u00a0Toufic Danial,\u00a0Wafa Aoun,\u00a0Meirav Memoresky,\u00a0Imad Ourani. Official Selection Venice International Film Festival 2024 (Winner Best Screenplay), Toronto International Film Festival 2024. In Arabic & Hebrew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,127,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coming-soon","category-co-produced-by-france","category-drama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22113"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25926,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22113\/revisions\/25926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}