A Gaza Weekend

A Gaza Weekend
Directed byBasil Khalil
Written byBasil Khalil
Daniel Ka-Chun Chan
Produced byAmina Dasmal
StarringStephen Mangan
Mouna Hawa
Loai Nofi
Maria Zreik
Adam Bakri
Adeeb Safadi
CinematographyEric Raphael Mizrahi
Lasse Ulvedal Tolbøll
Edited byShahnaz Duleimy
Victoria Boydell
Music byAlex Baranowski
Production
companies
Release date
  • 10 September 2022 (2022-09-10) (TIFF)
Running time
90 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
Palestine
LanguagesEnglish
Arabic
Hebrew

A Gaza Weekend is a 2022 British-Palestinian comedy film co-written and directed by Basil Khalil.[1] It follows an English man named Michael (Stephen Mangan) and his Israeli wife Keren (Mouna Hawa) as they try to take refuge in Gaza, which—due to Israel's blockade of the region—has ironically become the safest place to be after a virus is accidentally released from an Israeli laboratory.[1]

Although the film revolves around a viral pandemic, it began production long before the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] The film premiered on 10 September 2022 at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize.[2]

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 80% of 10 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.2/10.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c Allan Hunter, "‘A Gaza Weekend’: Toronto Review". Screen Daily, 10 September 2022.
  2. ^ Christian Zilko, "‘The Fabelmans’ Wins TIFF 2022 People’s Choice Award". IndieWire, 18 September 2022.
  3. ^ "A Gaza Weekend". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved December 16, 2023.
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