Gaza Mon Amour

  • Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser
  • France, Germany, Portugal, Palestine, Qatar
  • 2020
  • 88'

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Gaza Mon Amour is a satire about love, repressed love and life battling absurdity. Comfortable in his life as a single 60-year-old, Issa ignores attempts by his sister to find a wife. Seemingly not interested in relationships, Issa is secretly in love with Siham, a dressmaker working at the local market. When he finally musters the courage to propose, he finds a statue of a naked Apollo in his net and takes it home under the cover of darkness. However, Apollo loses his most prominent member and troubles begin. A series of comical events will force Issa to step out of his shell and shed light on the Kafkaesque bureaucracy of life under occupation. Will Issa fulfil his plan and declare his love for Siham?

Subtitles: HR/EN

Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser

Arab Nasser and Tarzan Nasser are twin brothers born in Gaza. They each graduated with a BFA in Painting from Gaza’s al-Aqsa University before turning to filmmaking with the shorts Colourful Journey (2010), Condom Lead (2013), Apartment 10/14 (2014), and With Premeditation (2014). In 2015, they made their debut feature, Dégradé (2015). Gaza Mon Amour (2020) is their second feature.

Gaza Mon Amour

Director
Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser
Screenplay
Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser, Fadette Drouard
Cast
Salim Daw, Hiam Abbass, Maisa Abd Elhadi, George Iskandar, Hitham Al Omai, Manal Awad
DOP
Christophe Graillot
Editing
Véronique Lange
Producer
Rani Massalha, Marie Legrand, Michael Eckelt, Pandora da Cunha Telles, Pablo Iraola, Rashid Abdelhamid, Khaled Haddad
Production
Les Films du Tambour, Riva Filmproduktion, Ukbar Filmes
Festivals & Awards
Venice Int'l Film Festival 2020 – Orizzonti; Toronto Int'l Film Festival 2020 – NETPAC Award; Chicago Int'l Film Festival 2020; Hamburg Film Festival 2020

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