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Hany Abu-Assad ( ar, هاني أبو أسعد; born 11 October 1961) is a Palestinian-Dutch film director. He has received two Academy Award nominations: in 2006 for his film ''
Abu-Assad was born to a
. He founded Ayloul Film Productions in 1990 with the Palestinian film-maker Paradise Now
''Paradise Now'' ( ar, الجنّة الآن, al-Janna al-ʾāna) is a political and psychological drama film directed by Hany Abu-Assad about two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in Israel. It won the Golden Globe Award for Best ...
'', and again in 2013 for his film ''Omar
ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb ( ar, عمر بن الخطاب, also spelled Omar, ) was the second Rashidun caliph, ruling from August 634 until his assassination in 644. He succeeded Abu Bakr () as the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate o ...
''.
Early life
Abu-Assad was born to a Palestinian
Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...
Muslim family, in the city of Nazareth, Israel, in 1961. He immigrated to the Netherlands in 1981, where he studied aerodynamics in Haarlem
Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...
and worked as an airplane engineer for several years.
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...Rashid Masharawi
Rashid Masharawi (also: "Rashid Mashrawi") ( ar, رشيد مشهراوي) is a Palestinian film director, born in Gaza in 1962 to a family of refugees from Jaffa. He grew up in the Shati refugee camp.
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Film career
In 1992, Abu-Assad wrote and directed his first short film, ''Paper House'' which was made for NOS Dutch television and won several international awards at film festivals in Paris and Jerusalem. In 1998, he directed his first film, ''Het 14de kippetje'' (''The Fourteenth Chick''), from a script by writerArnon Grunberg
Arnon Yasha Yves Grunberg (; born 22 February 1971) is a Dutch writer of novels, essays, and columns, as well as a journalist. He published some of his work under the heteronym Marek van der Jagt. He lives in New York. His work has been transla ...
. Later films include the documentary ''Nazareth 2000'' (2000) and the feature film ''Rana's Wedding'' (2002).
In 2002, ''Ford Transit'' was nominated for the Ophir Award
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in the documentary category.
In 2006, his film ''Paradise Now'' won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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, and received an Oscar
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-nomination in the same category. In 2005 ''Paradise Now'' won the Golden Calf for Best Feature Film The following is a list of winners of the Golden Calf for best long feature film at the NFF.
Trivia
* 13 former "best feature film"-winners where the Dutch submission for the Academy Award for Best International Film, including Oscar-nominee ...
at the Netherlands Film Festival
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.
His 2013 film ''Omar'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard
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The section presents 20 films w ...
section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival
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where it won the Jury Prize. In 2014, ''Omar'' was the Palestinian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, and was nominated for the award. The film also won the award for Best Film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards
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.
In 2014, Abu-Assad was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
In 2018, Abu-Assad joined the film jury for ShortCutz Amsterdam
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Festival
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, an annual film festival
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promoting short films in Amsterdam
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.
Filmography
* ''Paper House'' (1992, short film) - Director * ''Curfew'' (1993) - Producer * ''The 13th'' (1997, short film) - Director * '' The Fourteenth Chick'' (1998) - Director * '' Rana's Wedding'' (2002) - Director * ''Paradise Now
''Paradise Now'' ( ar, الجنّة الآن, al-Janna al-ʾāna) is a political and psychological drama film directed by Hany Abu-Assad about two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in Israel. It won the Golden Globe Award for Best ...
'' (2005) - Director
* '' The Courier'' (2012) - Director
* ''Omar
ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb ( ar, عمر بن الخطاب, also spelled Omar, ) was the second Rashidun caliph, ruling from August 634 until his assassination in 644. He succeeded Abu Bakr () as the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate o ...
'' (2013)
* '' The Idol'' (2015)
* '' The Mountain Between Us'' (2017)
* '' Huda's Salon'' (2021)
Documentaries
* '' Dar 0 Dour'' (1990) - Producer * '' Long Days in Gaza'' (1991) - Producer * '' De Arabieren van 2001'' (1999) - Director * '' Het Spijkerkwartier'' (2000) - Director * '' Nazareth 2000'' (2000) - Director * ''Ford Transit
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'' (2002) - Director
See also
*List of Palestinian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Palestine, as represented by the Palestinian Ministry of Culture has submitted films for consideration for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 2003. The Palestinians had also attempted to submit a film in 2002.
The Forei ...
References
Further reading
*Mendes, AC (2015).Walled in/walled out in the West Bank: Performing Separation Walls in Hany Abu-Assad’s ''Omar''
, ''Transnational Cinemas'', 6.2, 123–136. *
External links
*''The Guardian''
"I risked my life to make this movie"
''The Telegraph''
''Christianity Today'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Abu-Assad, Hany 1961 births Living people Dutch film directors Dutch people of Palestinian descent European Film Award for Best Screenwriter winners Israeli film directors Palestinian film directors People from Nazareth