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- 91 Minutes
- Warner Independent Pictures
- Language Arabic
- Subtitles English
- Country Palestine
- Rated:
- Format: 2.35:1
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- Directed by Hany Abu-Assaz
- Written by Bero Beyer, Hany Abu-Assaz
- Starring Ali Suliman, Amer Hlehel, Ashraf Barhom, Hiam Abbass, Kais Nashef, Lubna Azabal
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PARADISE NOW -- sweepingly powerful and intricately detailed, highly acclaimed and widely controversial -- tells the story of these two lifelong friends and their mission of doom. Hany Abu-Assad (the award-winning RANA'S WEDDING) directs, shooting this harrowing thriller in locations made equally harrowing by real-life missile attacks, exploding land mines, suspicious Palestinian factions and Israeli occupied forced, and the kidnapping of a crew member.
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Won: Best Foreign Language Film, 2006 Golden Globes; Best Film, Best Screenwriter, 2006 European Film Awards
Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film of the Year, 2006 Academy Awards
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Captures the bleakness of the West Bank and, more powerfully, shows us lives so grim that the thought of paradise now seems enticing.
-- Ruthe Stein, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
- More on Paradise Now:
- Profile of director Hany Abu-Assaz
- Interview with the director