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At Newman Cinemaكان يا مكان في غزة
Once Upon a Time in Gaza
2025
|Fiction
|90'
by Tarzan and Arab Nasser
[France, Palestine, Germany, Portugal — with Qatar and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan]
Synopsis
Gaza, 2007. Yahya, a young student, forges a friendship with Osama, a charismatic restaurant owner with a big heart. Together, they start peddling drugs while delivering falafel sandwiches, but they are soon forced to grapple with a corrupt cop and his oversized ego…
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Biography
Twin brothers Tarzan Nasser and Arab Nasser were born in Gaza in 1988. They started their filmmaking careers with their Cannes-selected short Condom Lead (15 min, 2013) before making their first feature film, Dégradé (2015), which premiered in the 68th Cannes’ Critics’ Week. Their second feature, Gaza Mon Amour, premiered in the Orrizonti Section of the 77th Venice International Film Festival and was Palestine’s submission to the 93rd Academy Awards. Once Upon a Time In Gaza, premiereδ in the Un Certain Regard category of the 78th Cannes Film Festival on 19 May 2025, where it won the Best Director award.
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