Tag: palestine

All five titles nominated for Academy Award, Best Live Action Short, are included in the program, now playing in select theaters.

While there may only be a brief teaser available for Philip Gnadt's Gaza Surf Club it is one hell of a tease. Gnadt's film explores the surfing community in one of the world's least likely surfing destinations - the war...

Co-written by Arabic language hip hop star Tamer Nafar and The Messenger writer-director Oren Moverman and loosely based on Nafar's own experiences, Udi Aloni's Junction 48 blew audiences away when it premiered in Berlin - winning the audience award in...

The documentary The Green Prince tells the story of a unique connection between two men. Mosab Hassan Yousef is the son of one of the founders of the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Arrested at the age of 17, he was...

With Omar, this is the second time Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. (His previous effort, Paradise Now, ended up winning a Golden Globe only.) Even if you take away...

Hany Abu-Assad's Omar, a political thriller and a love story set in the Occupied Territories, is Palestine's official entry for this year's Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. This is Abu-Assad's second nomination in that category since Paradise Now...

It came as no surprise in retrospect that The Gatekeepers is a film celebrated by Errol Morris. Having missed the film when it played TIFF last September, I had assumed, incorrectly, that it'd be a dry piece, merely talking...