Lipstikka
From here…
LIPSTIKKA is a psychological thriller which begins in Ramalla on 1993, during first the Palestinian uprising.
Inam and Lara, two Palestinian teenage girls, are bonded together by an adolescent attraction bordering on infatuation. Inam, sexy and daring, cajoles her friend Lara, shy and demure, into breaking the curfew imposed by the Israeli regime, and heading out towards the Jewish part of Jerusalem to see a movie.
What begins as a youthful prank soon turns into an unanticipated twist of events which will mar their lives forever.
15 years later, present day London – Lara is now married and settled with her English husband, Michael, and seven year old son, James. A knock on the door interrupts her daily routine – Inam shows up unexpectedly. There’s a sense of imminent danger between the two women, who have not seen each other for years.
Leaping back and forth in time, from Ramalla in the past the story’s resolution assumes different, often conflicting, shades of truth. It is a tale told through two different perceptions of the past, each equally believable, yet at the same – equally questionable.
This is a story about the fickle nature of memory, and how it can reinvent the past to the point where reality becomes a mere figment of our imagination. Sometimes we lose sense of what actually happened in our own past…
HOT OFF THE PRESS: Lipstikka will be in competition at the Berlinale!
