As part of our FYC Awards Screening programme, focused on the awards race, Screen is hosting an online screening of Palestine’s Oscar entry From Ground Zero on Wednesday, January 8.
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From executive producer Michael Moore, the inaugural project from Palestinian filmmaker Rashid Masharawi’s Gaza film fund is a compilation of 22 short films capturing the situation in Gaza amid the ongoing war with Israel, and has made the Oscars’ international feature film shortlist.
The films encompass animation, documentary, and fiction, with the project having its North American premiere at Toronto’s Lightbox strand. It is currently in cinemas in the United States.
France’s Coorigines Productions produced From Ground Zero alongside the Masharawi Fund in co-production with Watermelon Pictures, Turkey’s Metafora Productions, Jordan’s Royal Film Commission and UAE’s Sharjah Art Foundation.
Palestine has been nominated twice before, in 2005 for Hany Abu-Assad’s Paradise Now and in 2013 with Hany Abu-Assad’s Omar.
Watch the trailer below:
