3000 Nights

Palestine, France, Jordan, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Qatar | 2015 | 1h33 | Fiction Layal, a young newlywed Palestinian schoolteacher is arrested after being falsely accused and sentenced to 8 years of prison. She is transferred to a high security Israeli women's prison where she encounters a terrifying world in which Palestinian political prisoners are incarcerated with Israeli criminal inmates. When she discovers she is pregnant, the prison director pressures her to abort the baby and spy on the Palestinian inmates. However, resilient and still in chains, she gives birth to a baby boy. Through her struggle to raise her son behind bars, and her relationship with the other prisoners, she manages to find a sense of hope and a meaning to her life. Prison conditions deteriorate and the Palestinian prisoners decide to strike. The prison director warns her against joining the rebellion and threatens to take her son away. In a moment of truth, Layal is forced to make a choice that will forever change her life. Mai Masri is a Palestinian filmmaker who studied film at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University (USA). She directed and produced several films that were screened worldwide and won over 80 international awards. She founded Nour Productions in 1995 with her husband, filmmaker Jean Chamoun. Her first feature film, 3000 Nights (2015) had its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival and was screened in several international film festivals where it won over 24 awards and was selected to represent Jordan at the 2017 Oscar Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film and Palestine at the Golden Globes.