• 17. June 2025.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

GREATER ADRIA

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

DIRECTOR: Scandar Copti

COUNTRY: v

YEAR/DURATION: 2024. • 124′

drama

Info

  • SCREENPLAY: Scandar Copti
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tim Kuhn
  • EDITOR: Scandar Copti
  • PRODUCTION DESIGN: Stella Rossié
  • COSTUME DESIGN: Hamada Atallah
  • SCORE: Pascal Lemercier
  • CAST: Manar Shehab, Wafaa Aoun, Toufic Danial, Meirav Memoresky
  • PRODUCERS: Tony Copti, Jiries Copti, Dorothe Beinemeier, Jean Bréhat, Bertrand Faivre, Emma Binet, Marco Valerio Fusco, Micaela Fusco
  • PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Fresco Films, Red Balloon Film, Tessalit Productions, Intramovies
  • DISTRIBUTION: ZFF

Festivals and awards

Venice Film Festival 2024 – Orizzonti Award for Best Screenplay
Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2024 – Golden Alexander Award
Marrakech International Film Festival 2024 – Étoile d’Or Award for Best Film and Best Actresses

Synopsis

Leaving the warm but strict family fold, college student Fifi has only just gotten a taste of independence, but her newfound freedom is already under threat. When she wakes up in the hospital after a minor accident, Fifi will quickly have to decide how much of her new life she wants her family to know. But with a suspicious and perceptive mother, some secrets are harder to keep than others.

Trailer

About the director

Scandar Copti is a Palestinian filmmaker and visual artist, originally from Yafa, now based in Abu Dhabi. His debut feature Ajami (2009) was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards.

Screening

    • VALLI CINEMA – MONDAY 7.7.2025.

      20:00

FREE ENTRANCE

    • VALLI CINEMA – SUNDAY 13.7.2025.

      22:00

FREE ENTRANCE

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