Following the international success of her prize-winning feature début, Little Jerusalem, director Karin Albou returns with a remarkable film that maps a place where Jewish and Arab culture and religion meet. Set in 1942 Nazi-occupied Tunis, The Wedding Song is about two inseparable teenage friends, Jewish Myriam and Muslim Nour, who are determined to maintain their lifelong bond. Although each is far more interested in romance than in war, the girls quickly discover that the Nazi occupation encroaches on their wedding preparations in unexpected ways. To save herself and her daughter from deportation, Myriam's impoverished seamstress mother (played by director Karin Albou herself) marries Myriam off to a wealthy, older doctor, Raoul. Meanwhile, Nour is happily betrothed to her handsome cousin, Khaled, but her father postpones the wedding until Khaled gets a job. To make things more complicated, the Islamist Khaled finds work with the Germans, helping to round-up members of the local Jewish community. Albou decorates this unfolding drama with many intimate and suggestive details, in scenes that take the viewer inside of the women's hammam to the preparation for an "Oriental-style" wedding. The result is a genuinely groundbreaking film.