3000 Layla (2015)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 103 minuten
Alternative title: 3000 Nights
Country:
Palestine / France / Jordan / Lebanon
Directed by: Mai Masri
Stars: Maisa Abd Elhadi, Hussein Nakhleh and Abeer Zeibak Haddad
IMDb score:
7,1 (1.366)
Releasedate: 15 October 2015
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3000 Layla plot
Minutes after the young bride Layal is hitched a ride with a young man in the West Bank, she is suddenly handcuffed and arrested. She is accused of complicity with a Palestinian militant group in an operation against the occupying Israeli army. She is given a long custodial sentence in a maximum-security prison. Layal barely knows the rules for surviving in prison when she finds out she's pregnant. She has the terrifying prospect of having a baby behind bars. But she gets caught up in a bigger battle. The prisoners are revolting to defend their fundamental rights. She undergoes the perverse system of control that prison administrators use to thwart solidarity between women.
Actors and actresses
Jamileh
Ayman
Layal
Security Officer
Shulamit
Military Judge
Doctor
Interrogator
Hava
Sanaa
Reviews & comments
Black Math
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- 5430 messages
- 1753 votes
Very mediocre film, which is quite fragmentary, and which doesn't really seem to have a purpose other than to highlight the appalling conditions for Palestinians in Israeli cells. That fact is too poor for a feature film if the main character is not very interesting. 0.5*.
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Donkerwoud
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- 8698 messages
- 3961 votes
Women's wing amid the political tensions of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. '3000 Layla' (2015) really ticks all the clichés of productions about women's prisons. A good protagonist who has not yet come to terms with the injustice of an unjust conviction, while she is thrown among the lions when various top dogs compete for power. Corrupt guards provide services or take out their own frustrations on the prisoners. A socially critical layer because Layal (Maisa Abd Elhadi), like so many other Palestinians, is randomly arrested on shadowy terrorism suspicions. Political tensions also affect the relationships between Israeli/Palestinian prisoners and authorities. With an important key role for Sanaa (Nadira Omran) as a kind of one-armed Martine Hafkamp, who clearly seeks conflict with prison riots and hunger strikes. But can and does pregnant Layal still want to be part of this?
Just like the Jordanian-Palestinian production 'Farha' (2021), it is striking that '3000 Layla' (2015) explicitly presents a female perspective. Here is a newly married young woman who will have to give birth in a prison. Her pregnant belly in an environment full of hatred, violence and powerlessness. The birth of son Nour and the constant fear that the little one will be taken away from her. Especially when both prison management and fellow inmates use the boy as leverage to test her loyalty. The absolute most beautiful moments are the loving exchanges between mother and son. Visually, '3000 Layla' (2015) also manages to convey the claustrophobia of prison walls and the merciless passage of time. Unfortunately, the outspoken political message and the many genre clichés get in the way of a nuanced film about imprisoned women. It remains flatter than it could have been.
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BBarbie
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- 12893 messages
- 7675 votes
Somewhat oppressive film about a Palestinian woman who ends up in an Israeli prison on the basis of vague accusations and gives birth to a child there. There is no shortage of drama, but in my opinion the story could have been a bit stronger. The prison staff is not depicted in a nuanced manner. Nevertheless worth it.
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