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Cannes 2025: Gaza Casts Shadow over Festival, but Films Celebrate Palestinian Resilience
- Filmmaker brothers Arab and Tarzan Nasser from Gaza debuted their latest movie, 'Once Upon A Time In Gaza,' at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday, 2025.
- The film explores Gaza's situation following the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and the ensuing Israeli retaliatory offensive.
- The offensive has killed over 53,000 people in Gaza, mostly civilians, while 1,218 Israelis, mostly civilians, died in the Hamas attack.
- Tarzan Nasser expressed that Gaza has been devastated, highlighting how the increasingly strict blockade has severely impacted daily life and the delivery of aid.
- The film highlights Gazans’ resilience and love of life, capturing human experiences amid intense hardship and a two-month total blockade.
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‘Once Upon A Time In Gaza’ Directors Talk Capturing Real Life In The Strip: “These People You See In The Movie; These Are The People Being Killed Now” – Cannes Studio
Palestinian directors Tarzan and Arab Nasser returned to Cannes Un Certain Regard this year with genre-blending tragicomic, thriller and film-within-a-film third feature Once Upon A Time In Gaza. The twin brothers (aks Ahmed and Mohamed Abunasser) have long challenged stereotypes about their native Gaza and its people with features such as hair salon-set Degradé (2015) […]
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Cannes 2025: Gaza casts shadow over festival, but films celebrate Palestinian resilience
With war still raging in Gaza, Palestinian filmmakers are in no mood to celebrate their strongest Cannes showing in years. But the movies screened at the world’s leading film festival, including brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser’s "Once Upon a Time in Gaza", are powerful odes to resilience.
Tragic Timing for the Comedy-Drama "Once upon a Time in Gaza"
CANNES. Palestinian twin brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser come to the festival with the year's most politically affecting film. An explosive comedy-drama set in Gaza in 2007. The tragic-sounding title "Once upon a time in Gaza" recalls the total devastation of what was once a society.
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