The success of Palestinian films at international festivals is undeniable: even though film production within the territory is not very abundant, the films have a high reputation. In 2017 “Ghost Hunting” won the Best Documentary Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, in 2013 Hany Abu Assad’s “Omar” won the Jury Prize in the Un …
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From June 2nd to 11th the Ciné-Palestine festival will be running in Paris, Saint-Denis and Aubervilliers. The festival’s aim is to show the creativity and diversity of Palestinian cinema. This year’s programming is influenced by the 50th anniversary of the occupation which followed the Six-Day War in 1967, focussing on “shared views about 1967”. There …
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“In Between”, Palestinian director Maysaloun Hamoud’s first feature film, was released in French cinemas in mid-April. Although the film has been praised by international critics and won awards at several festivals (Haifa, San Sebastian, Toronto), this has not prevented the 35-year-old Palestinian film-maker, born in Budapest and raised in Dir-Hana, Israel, from receiving death threats …
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Abdelhatif Belhaj and Lolita Bourdet are appealing for crowd-funding to finance the post-production of their documentary “La pêche et l’olive”, filmed in Seine-Saint-Denis and Palestine. The film follows nine teenagers living in a district of Montreuil (a “difficult” suburb of Paris), who go to the village of Beit Sira, near Ramallah in Palestine as part …
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According to Reuters, on March 12th the European company Eutelsat stopped transmitting the Palestinian channel Al Aqsa TV, after a telephone conversation the previous day between the French President, François Hollande and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu . The channel was nevertheless back on air shortly afterwards on other networks, including the Egyptian Nilesat. …
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“Palestine in sight – First Palestinian Film Festival in the Rhône-Alpes Created by the ERAP Association (Palestine/Rhône-Alpes Exchanges) this first festival of Palestinian film opened in Annecy (France) in May and will travel round ten of the region’s towns from June 3rd to 12th. More than twenty screenings of ten different films are being shown. …
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Palestinian directors Arab and Tarzan Nasser won the Best Director Award in the Un Certain Regard category for their film Once Upon a Time in Gaza. A dark comedy with a sharp social commentary, Once Upon a Time in Gaza is about a young student, Yahya, who forms an unlikely friendship with an outgoing but …
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