Roshmia

Palestine | 2014 | 1h10 | Documentary Eighty years old Yousef Hassan lives in a shack in Roshmia valley since 1956 when he was displaced from Wadi Alsaleeb neighborhood in downtown Haifa. Above the Valley, Jewish neighbors live in new settlements. When Haifa municipality decides to open a new road through the valley to connect the Mediterranean beach with the Jewish neighbors on the Karmel Mountain, Yousef’s shack has to be demolished. The possibility of financial compensation from the Municipality creates tension in the relationship between Yousef, his wife and their sponsor. A film by Salim Abu Jabal