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The Present (2020 Film)
''The Present'' ( ar, الهدية, translit=Al Hadiya, lit=The Gift) is a 2020 short film directed by Farah Nabulsi and co-written by Nabulsi and Hind Shoufani, about a father and daughter in the Palestinian enclaves of the Israeli-occupied West Bank trying to buy a wedding anniversary gift. The cast is led by Palestinian actor Saleh Bakri. It was released on Netflix on 18 March 2021, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. In 2021, it won the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film. Summary The film is about a father and daughter in the Palestinian enclaves of the Israeli-occupied West Bank trying to buy a wedding anniversary gift. The film opens with Yusef (Saleh Bakri) waiting to cross the overcrowded Checkpoint 300, near Bethlehem, in the early morning.Carly A. Krakow, Jadaliyya, 21 December 2020A Path with No Alternative: A Review of Farah Nabulsi’s Film “The Present”/ref> The scene was produced on location with guerrilla filmmaking; Nab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farah Nabulsi
Farah Nabulsi (; born 1978) is a British- Palestinian filmmaker and human rights activist. For her short film ''The Present'', she was nominated for an Academy Award and won the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film. Early life Nabulsi was born and raised in London, and is the daughter of a Palestinian mother and Palestinian-Egyptian father. Her father came to the UK to study for a PhD in civil engineering and her mother arrived via Kuwait when her family left Palestine following the Arab-Israeli war in 1967. Nabulsi attended Francis Holland School for girls and is a graduate of Cass Business School, London. In her late 30s, she switched her career after working in the city as a CFA-qualified stockbroker at a boutique investment bank, and later JP Morgan. She made the decision following a trip to Palestine in 2013 for the first time as an adult to trace her family roots. Film career In 2016, she founded ''Native Liberty Productions'', a not-for-profit media production company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bethlehem
Bethlehem (; ar, بيت لحم ; he, בֵּית לֶחֶם '' '') is a city in the central West Bank, Palestine, about south of Jerusalem. Its population is approximately 25,000,Amara, 1999p. 18.Brynen, 2000p. 202. and it is the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate of the State of Palestine. The economy is primarily tourist-driven, peaking during the Christmas season, when Christians make pilgrimage to the Church of the Nativity. The important holy site of Rachel's Tomb is at the northern entrance of Bethlehem, though not freely accessible to the city's own inhabitants and in general Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank due to the Israeli West Bank barrier. The earliest known mention of Bethlehem was in the Amarna correspondence of 1350–1330 BCE when the town was inhabited by the Canaanites. The Hebrew Bible, which says that the city of Bethlehem was built up as a fortified city by Rehoboam, identifies it as the city David was from and where he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
