'Let It Be Morning' is big winner at Haifa film fest

• Author: HANNAH BROWN
• Published date: 28 September 2021

The movie, which tells the story of an Israeli-Arab who goes to his home village for a wedding and gets stuck there, which is based on a novel by Sayed Kashua, also won the award for Best Actor for Ehab Elias Salami. He plays a cab owner who struggles against gangsters who want him to pay for protection.

Kolirin, who directed The Band's Visit in 2007, thanked his actors, his crew and Kashua, and said the film had been created in a "bubble of love." The movie is nominated for 15 Ophir Awards.

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