Title Content: Movie - Wa Hala La Wein - 2011

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A group of women living in one village, although their religion is different, they' re brought together by their grief over the loss of their children and relatives killed by the war. They try to save what can be saved, but if the events take another tragic turn,can they have the strength to hold on?

• 19 September 2019
• Shaimaa Saied

On the edge of a cratered road, a cortège-like procession of women solemnly makes its way towards the village cemetery. Takla, Amaale, Yvonne, ‘Afaaf and Saydeh stoically brave the oppressive midday heat, clutching photographic effigies of their beloved menfolk, lost to a futile, protracted and distant war. Some of the women are veiled, others bear wooden crosses, but all are clad in black and united by a sense of shared grief. As they arrive at the cemetery gates, the procession divides into two congregations; one Muslim, the other Christian. Set against the backdrop of a war-torn country, “Where do we go now?” tells the heart-warming tale of a group of women’s determination to protect their isolated, mine-encircled community from the pervasive and divisive outside forces that threaten to destroy it from within. United by a common cause, the women’s unwavering friendship transcends, against all the odds, the religious fault lines, which crisscross their society and they hatch some extraordinarily inventive and often comical plans, in order to distract the village’s menfolk and defuse any sign of inter-religious tension. A series of chaotic incidents tests the women’s ingenuity as they manage, with sass, to stave successfully off the fall-out from the distant war. When events take a tragic turn, Just how far will the women go in order to prevent bloodshed and turmoil?

• 25 July 2008
• Achraf Wassim