Premiere of “Gaza Mon Amour”

On Friday, June 4, the second feature film directed by brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser will be coming out in theaters. It won the Silver Spike and the Best Screenplay award at the sixty-fifth Valladolid Film Festival.

Selected by Palestine to represent the country at the Oscars in the category of Best International Film, “Gaza mon amour” was presented in competition at the Orizzonti Section of the Venice Biennale and in the Official Selection of the Toronto Film Festival, where its protagonists Salim Daw (Issa) and Hiam Abass (Siham) captivated the audience with this amusing story inspired by a real event that took place in Gaza in 2014, when a Palestinian fisherman found an ancient Greek statue entangled in his fishing nets that was immediately confiscated.

The Nasser brothers, who broke onto the film scene in 2015 with their debut feature “Dégradé,” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, offering a look at everyday life in Gaza through a simple, tender and funny story, in which hope and the desire to be happy are first and foremost.