A Gaza Weekend Explained

A Gaza Weekend
Director:Basil Khalil
Producer:Amina Dasmal
Starring:Stephen Mangan
Mouna Hawa
Loai Nofi
Maria Zreik
Adam Bakri
Adeeb Safadi
Music:Alex Baranowski
Cinematography:Eric Raphael Mizrahi
Lasse Ulvedal Tolbøll
Editing:Shahnaz Duleimy
Victoria Boydell
Runtime:90 minutes
Country:United Kingdom
Palestine
Language:English
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, whichdue to Israel's blockade of the regionhas 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]

Notes and References

  1. 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.