The Parrot Screens at the Festival Ciné-Palestine in Paris on June 3 & 8

The short film The Parrot by directors Darin J. Sallam and Amjad Al Rasheed will screen at the 5thFestival Ciné-Palestine - FCP in Paris (May 30 - June 10) on June 3 at 02:30 PM (GMT +2). The film will also have an open air screening on Saturday, June 8 at 06:00 PM.

Featuring Tunisian star Hend Sabry and Palestinian star Ashraf Barhoum,along with Yasmine Ben Amara, Eyad Hourani, Firas Taybeh, Lara Sawalha, and Ahmad Al-Madani, The Parrot tells the story of a Mizrahi Jewish family, who emigrate from Morocco, trying to settle into their new life in Haifa, Palestine in 1948. The film is written and directed by Darin J. Sallam and Amjad Al Rasheed and co-written by Rifqi Assaf. The film is a German/Jordanian co-production between the German company Monokel (Roman Roitman) and the Jordanian company TaleBox (Deema Azar). MAD Solutions handles the film's distribution in the Arab world.

The Parrot had its world premiere at the 13th Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) within the Muhr Short competition. The film won the Jury Award at the 7th Malmö Arab Film Festival in Sweden and the Best Short Film award at the Palestine Cinema Days, within its Sunbird competition. The film is funded by the German Foundation Robert Bosch Stiftung (RBS), which funds the Best German-Arab film projects. The Parrot received the 2015 Film Prize of RBS in the short fiction category.