Qamaran wa Zaytouna (International title: Two Moons and an Olive) is a Syria

Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

n feature drama film by director Abdellatif Abdelhamid

Abdellatif Abdelhamid

Abdellatif Abdelhamid is one of Syria's most prominent film directors. His films have earned numerous awards in the Arab world, beginning with the Damascus International Film Festival, the Carthage Film Festival, and Rabat International Film Festival....

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Background

The film takes Abdelhamid's familiar style in his Layali Ibn Awah and Rasael Shafahiyah. In the three films the director goes back to the countryside environment in the sixties of the past century and seeks the help of the coastal dialect.

The film

The Two Moons and Olive are two boys and a girl (Zaytouna), the film takes place at the beginning of the 1960s. The father who is completely paralyzed after been injured during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and the mother (Norman Asaad) who is suffering from sexual deprivation and loneliness, which make her a cruel woman punishing her son severely because he sucks on his finger and her daughter because she sympathizes with him, by shaving their hair completely.