The Idol
- IMDb link: 4686692
- IMDb rating: 6.7 (2,150 votes) Search
- Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography, Music
- Director: Tawfeek Barhom, Hany Abu-Assad
- Cast: Kais Attalah, Hiba Attalah, Ahmad Qasem and others
- Release date: 2 Jun 2016
- Release year: 2015
- Runtime: 100 minutes
- Country: Occupied Palestinian Territory, United Kingdom, Qatar, Netherlands, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
- Keywords: ends with text, ends with real life footage, what happened to epilogue, child, 21st century, gaza, aspiring musician, musician, watching tv, flashback
Plot
Storyline
Mohammed Assaf, an aspiring musician living in Gaza, sets a seemingly impossible goal: to compete on the program "Arab Idol."
Since his early years in his native Gaza, Mohammed Assaf has had a golden voice. Accompanied by his sister Nour and two of his friends, he sings in courtyards first and later at weddings while Kamal helps him to develop the full range of his vocal capacities. Nour unfortunately dies of kidney failure and Mohammed grows up in sorrow and bitterness, all the more as war strikes his hometown. In 2012, he is a student and drives a taxi to finance his studies. He wants to start singing again but he can envisage singing as a career only in leaving Gaza. His only hope is to participate in the famous "Arab Idol" contest. But how to leave the place without a visa?
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