Love, Theft and Other Entanglements

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Love, Theft and Other Entanglements, is a 2015 Palestinian movie, directed by Muayad Alayan, and starring Muayad Alayan, Mustafa Abu Hanood, Sami Metwasi. with a runtime of 93 minutes.

Overview

Love, Theft and Other Entanglements is a Palestinian drama laced with dark humor, following Mousa, a refugee camp resident who steals Israeli cars for a living — a career he vastly prefers to the legal work permit his father struggled to obtain. Politically disengaged and secretly in love with a married woman, Mousa dreams of escaping the violence and restrictions of divided Jerusalem. But a routine car theft goes catastrophically wrong when he discovers something hidden inside the stolen Passat — something that instantly makes this apolitical young man a target for every faction in the city. A sharp, surprising film that filters the Palestinian experience through the lens of one ordinary man's very extraordinary bad day.

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