Samaritans (52')
SAMARITANS (52')
INFORMATION
FR / 2018 / 52’ / HD / French, English (subtitles), German (to be bought from Arte)
Gloria Films / France 3 / Directed by Julien Menanteau
Worldwide rights available
TAGS
Middle-East, faith, religion, generation, youth
SYNOPSIS
Samaritans are a unique minority in the Middle East. The world’s only holders of Israeli-Palestinian dual nationality, with only 780 members left, they are now on the verge of extinction and need to reinvent themselves. This thousand-year-old people displays the highest rate of consanguinity of humanity. Facing genetic and political dead end, a handful of them look for foreign wives while others question their identity. Their challenge is to survive and find their place in the world...