Synopsis
As wedding festivities get underway in a Bedouin village in Southern Israel, Jalila finds herself in the awkward position of hosting her husband Suliman’s marriage to a second, much younger wife. During the celebration, Jalila stumbles across her eldest daughter Layla’s involvement with a boy from her university
—a strictly forbidden liaison that would shame the family. Burying the indignity of Suliman and his new bride living next door, Jalila also tries to contain Layla’s situation by clamping down on her. But Layla sees a different life for herself...
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Movie Details
| Australia Releases: |
December 2nd, 2016 (Limited), released as Sand Storm |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Running Time: |
87 minutes |
| Keywords: |
Wedding Day, Dysfunctional Family, Forbidden Romance, Romance, Bigamy or Polygamy, Set in Israel, Sundance Film Festival 2016 |
| Source: | Original Screenplay |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Production Method: | Live Action |
| Creative Type: | Contemporary Fiction |
| Production/Financing Companies: |
Beta Cinema, Two Team Production, Yehoshua Rabinovich Tel-Aviv Foundation for the Arts, Cinema Projects, Gesher Multicultural Film Fund |
| Production Countries: |
Israel |
| Languages: |
Arabic |
October 5th, 2016
Denial and American Honey were the only two films in the $10,000 club on the theater average chart this week. Denial earned first place with an average of $18,746 in five theaters, while American Honey was relatively close behind with an average of $17,801 in four.
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September 30th, 2016
There are more than a few films on this week’s list that were made to win Oscars. Of these, Sand Storm is the best. However, Denial has the biggest box office potential.
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Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.
Weekend Box Office Performance
| Date | Rank | Gross | % Change | Screens | Per Screen | Total Gross | Week |
|---|
| 2016/12/02 |
- |
$4,196 |
|
7 |
$599 |
$4,196 |
1 |
| 2016/12/09 |
- |
$4,944 |
+18% |
8 |
$618 |
$10,749 |
2 |
| 2016/12/16 |
- |
$2,838 |
-43% |
7 |
$405 |
$15,709 |
3 |
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