Two students in the West Bank are forced to return home to Gaza, where their love defies tradition. To reach his lover, Qays grafittis poetry across town. Habibi is a modern re-telling of the famous ancient Sufi parable Majnun Layla. The full Arabic title is Habibi Rasak Kharban, which translates as “darling, something’s wrong with your head.”
Awards: Winner best editor, best actress, Doha International Film Festival 2011; Best Film, FIPRESCI Prize, and Camera Novo, the highest prize at the Cinema Novo Festival, Brugge; recipient of the Grand Prize in the Emerging Narrative program at IFP’s Independent Film Week
