A Wedding in Ramallah

From acclaimed filmmaker Sherine Salama the story follows a marriage between an Americanbased Palestinian man Bassam Abed and a young woman Mariam with a traditional village upbringing Bassam works as a telephone repairman in Cleveland Ohio and returns to the West Bank town of Ramallah to find a wife A few weeks later the two are married and we are offered unique insight into the arranged wedding The film subsequently follows their desperate attempts to secure a visa to America for Mariam and her resulting life in Cleveland languishing in an apartment with no friends or support