#three promises

Three Promises (2023, Yousef Srouji 🇵🇸)

At the start of the 2000s, while the Israeli army is retaliating against the second intifada in the West Bank, Suha films her daily family life, punctuated by frequent trips underground and overwhelmed by the anguish of her two young children. At every moment of intense danger, she promises God that she will leave if they survive. In 2017, her son, the director of this film, discovers this archive and reconnects with this suppressed past, wondering with his mother what drove her to record a daily life of suffering, a stolen childhood, and why she delayed fleeing, paralyzed by the hope for change and burdened by the impossible choice between physical safety and emotional upheaval.[x]

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1964

“It’s beautiful!”. “It’s just a stupid dress, Evan, I have a hundred more.”

She lets him try it on anyway. Rolling her eyes and telling him how ridiculous he looks. “Your hair isn’t long enough, Evan, you need long hair to be a princess.” But when he begs her to keep his secret she swears on her baby sister’s life. And Evan trusts her. 

1975

 “What if I’m not cut out for this?”

The look she gives him is somewhere in between disbelief and pity. “You are. You will be.” Evan isn’t convinced. He isn’t as brave as she is. Not as sure. His path his right there in front of him, all he needs to do is to start walking. Yet he hesitates and when he does she is right there, his guiding light. Another promise, albeit a silent one. She won’t let him go astray. So she goes ahead, and Evan follows.

1981

“Promise me he’ll live, Bella!”

Three Promises (2023, Yousef Srouji 🇵🇸)

"Don't worry, I won't go near the windows."