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Kate Winslet and Idris Elba battle the elements in 'The Mountain Between Us,' directed by Hany Abu-Assad (Courtesy 'The Mountain Between Us' official Facebook page)
October 30, 2017, 12:03 pm
Palestinian director soars to new heights with big-budget thriller
With the Canadian Rockies as a backdrop, Hany Abu-Assad’s ‘The Mountain Between Us’ portrays ‘normal people caught in an extreme situation’
By Jessica Steinberg
In this Thursday Oct. 20, 2016 photo, Palestinian producer May Odeh holds the Sunbird Short Film Award trophy for the film entitled 'Izriqaq (Blued),' during the Days of Cinema awards ceremony, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Nasser Nasser/AP)
October 23, 2016, 11:40 pm
New Palestinian ‘Oscars’ aim to promote local cinema
Organizers of ‘Sunbird Prize’ say local industry is slowly moving beyond exhausted ‘hero-victim’ tropes to stories with more complex, controversial plots
By Mohammed Daraghmeh
The Oscars! (courtesy: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
September 30, 2014, 4:39 pm
‘The Eyes of a Thief’ to represent Palestine at Oscars
Entry from Jordanian-Palestinian director Najwa Najjar tells of former inmate in Israeli prison harboring a dark secret
By Debra Kamin
Palestinian actors Leem Lebany as Nadja and Adam Bakri as Omar (photo credit: Courtesy 'Omar')
February 21, 2014, 2:50 pm
‘Omar’ and its mustache-twirling Jews hit US theaters
Palestinian nominee for the Best Foreign Language Oscar is released in America, and ‘Noah’ is again in a flood of tsuris
By Jordan Hoffman
The 'Omar' cast at Cannes, with director Hany Abu-Assad in the center (photo credit: Courtesy 'Omar' by Hany Abu-Assad Facebook page)
January 20, 2014, 11:13 pm
Walking this year’s red carpet, thorny global politics
The Academy of Motion Pictures has declared Palestine a state, and this time around, Israeli officials aren’t fighting it
By Debra Kamin
Palestinian actors Leem Lebany as Nadja and Adam Bakri as Omar (photo credit: Courtesy 'Omar')
January 17, 2014, 8:38 am
Oscars recognize film from ‘Palestine’ for first time
‘Territories’ dropped from description of nominee ‘Omar,’ signaling a change in Academy policy
By Jessica Herndon
Looking over Hany Abu-Assad's shoulder at a view of Nazareth (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
January 16, 2014, 4:11 pm
Palestinian movie, partly filmed in Israel, gets Oscar nod
Hany Abu-Assad was born in Israel, and he filmed some of ‘Omar,’ a West Bank love story, in Nazareth. But he calls his film Palestinian, and so does the Academy
By Debra Kamin and Jessica Steinberg
'Omar' director Hany Abu-Assad is nervously awaiting news of the Oscar nominees (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
December 25, 2013, 7:05 pm
In first, a Palestinian film awaits word from the Oscars
Hany Abu-Assad, the director of ‘Omar,’ wants audiences to look past the politics when they come to see his movie
By Jessica Steinberg
Hiatham Omari as Badawi in Yuval Adler's 'Bethlehem' (photo credit: Vered Adir/Courtesy)
December 21, 2013, 1:50 pm
‘Bethlehem’ fails to make Oscar shortlist
Yuval Adler’s drama had been highly tipped to nab a coveted Oscar nomination
By Debra Kamin
Alesia Weston and Lia Van Leer at Weston's first festival as director, July 2012 (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash 90)
September 9, 2013, 5:51 pm
Fade to gray at the Jerusalem Cinematheque
Alesia Weston tells the Times of Israel why, after little more than a year, she has left her job as director of Jerusalem’s revered art house film institution
By Jessica Steinberg
'Omar' director Hany Abu-Assad is nervously awaiting news of the Oscar nominees (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
June 15, 2013, 6:08 am
The filmmaker who moved back home
Hany Abu-Assad, Cannes award-winning director of ‘Omar,’ a Palestinian romantic thriller, talks about his past — and future — in his hometown of Nazareth
By Jessica Steinberg
A scene from 'Omar,' which won the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival. (photo credit: courtesy)
May 28, 2013, 9:29 am
Palestinian film ‘Omar’ wins Cannes prize
Directed by Palestinian filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad, it was filmed in the West Bank and negatively portrays Israel
Still from Ari Folman's 2013 'The Congress,' based on Stanisław Lem's 1971 Polish science fiction novel, 'The Futurological Congress.' (photo credit: Courtesy)
May 27, 2013, 8:00 pm
What was kosher (and not) at Cannes
A whirlwind wrap-up of the world’s preeminent film festival with freelance cinema writer Jordan Hoffman
By Jordan Hoffman
Adam Bakri (photo credit: screen capture MandiEntertainment/Youtube)
May 23, 2013, 9:43 pm
West Bank story
Director says film about sweethearts passing from the Palestinian territories into Israel is a modern-day ‘Romeo and Juliet’
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