Gaza mon amour France, Germany, Portugal 2020 | 87 min | OV with English subtitles | Colour | FF 2020
Arab Nasser
ARAB and TARZAN NASSER (*1988) are twin brothers who both studied Visual Arts at the Al-Aqsa University in Gaza. Their first film, "Dégradé" (2015), ran in competition in the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes. "Gaza mon Amour" is their second full-length film.Tarzan Nasser
ARAB and TARZAN NASSER (*1988) are twin brothers who both studied Visual Arts at the Al-Aqsa University in Gaza. Their first film, "Dégradé" (2015), ran in competition in the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes. "Gaza mon Amour" is their second full-length film.
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[⏵] An absurd comedy from Gaza. At the centre: an old man in love and the god of male beauty. A Hamburg co-production which ran in Venice in the section »Orizzonti«.Gaza, the present day: Issa, around 60, lives as a fisherman in Gaza harbour. He’s secretly in love with the divorced market stallholder Siham (Hiam Abbass). One day Issa finds a bronze statue of the Greek god Apollo in his net – sporting an impressive erect penis. This find is just the first of many disturbances for Issa. The god of male beauty turns his life upside down, along with the lives of all around him – and proves a test for the hypocritical, backward government of Gaza. Presented by:
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Original title: Gaza mon amour
Film type: Fiction Feature
Original language: Arabic
Section: Kaleidoscope
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Language and subtitles: OV with English subtitles
Director: Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser
Screenplay: Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser, Fadette Drouard
Cast: Salim Daw, Hiam Abbass, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Manal Awad, Hitham Al Omari
Producer: Michael Eckelt, Marie Legrand, Rani Massalha, Pandora DE Cunha Telles, Pablo Iraola
Director of Photography: Christophe Graillot
Music: Andre Matthias
Production Design: Tarzan Nasser
Editor: Véronique Lange
Sound: Tim Stephan
Costume design: Hamada Atallah
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Format: dcp
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German Distributor: Alamode
World Sales: Versatile
Production: Les Films du Tambour
Contact: Theresa Noll, Riva Filmproduktion: hamburg@rivafilm.de
