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Palestinian-British director Farah Nabulsi is winning audiences and awards with her debut feature film shot in West Bank before Israel-Hamas war. | World News ....
The Present in Palestine The Present (2020) directed by Farah Nabulusi As Israel concludes another massacre of innocent Palestinians including children, world leaders issue more dead statements on witnessing a modern-day Holocaust in occupied Palestine. The start of this new attack once again shows the dominance of the United States of America and Israel over almost the entire globe. Israel hasn’t really been able to curb the artistic voices of Palestinians. Such art comes back like a bad penny for Israel. Farah Nabulusi, a British-Palestinian Oscar and BAFTA-nominated filmmaker and human rights advocate, surely is a repository of such currency. Hers is a name that will remain in the bad books of the Zionist dominated politics of Israel, primarily because of her simple, sophisticated way of revealing minute aspects of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation through her realistic films. ....
When 42-year-old stockbroker-turned-filmmaker Farah Nabulsi was waiting to hear if she’d been nominated for an Oscar last month, she had to beg her three teenage sons to join her on the sofa at their West London home. She needed moral support, she jokes today. ‘I said: “Come and sit with me. If it’s not there, I’ll need a hug. And if it is there, I’ll need a hug”.’ It’s not that her boys didn’t care. They’re just rather accustomed to their mother an untrained, first-time director winning things. Her short film, The Present, about a Palestinian man and his daughter who set out to buy an anniversary gift for his wife a simple task that proves fraught due to the Israeli checkpoints they must pass through has already won 25 jury and audience awards at film festivals around the world. Most recently it won the Bafta for Best British Short Film. ....