Salt of this Sea (Arabic: ملح هذا البحر, romanized: Milh hadha al-bahr) is a 2008 Palestinian film directed by Annemarie Jacir and was an Official Selection of the Cannes International Film Festival in 2008.

[4] The film stars Palestinian-American poet Suheir Hammad as Soraya, an American-born Palestinian woman, who heads to Israel and Palestine on a quest to reclaim her family's home and money that were taken during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

International Federation of Film Critics, 2008 Sguardi Altrove Film Festival, Italy 2009 Osians Asian & Arab Film Festival, 2008 Traverse City Film Festival, 2009 Oran International Festival of Arab Cinema, 2009 Journées cinématographiques de Carthage, 2008 Dubai International Film Festival, 2008 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival 2009 Houston Palestine Film Festival, 2009 Chicago Palestine Film Festival, 2009 Cairo Refugee Film Festival, 2009 Toronto Palestine Film Festival, 2008

Grand Prix Best Screenplay, 2007 San Sebastian Film Festival, 2007 The film is dedicated to the memory of the Al-Dawayima massacre that happened in the village in 29 October 1948.

[5] The village ruins serve as the temporary residence of the main characters, Emad and Soraya.