PARADISE NOW in Dubai
December 13th, 2005 by Andre Soares
“Though certain groups within Palestine opposed the making of this movie on grounds that it was against suicide attacks and even kidnapped a unit member, the moderates have supported it. I will always remain a Palestinian filmmaker working for the humanitarian cause,” said Paradise Now director Hany Abu-Assad at the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), which opened on Dec. 11 with a gala screening of Assad’s controversial film. Paradise Now has just been nominated for a Best Foreign-Language Film Golden Globe award and recently won the European Film Award for Best Screenplay (Abu-Assad and Bero Beyer.)
The film depicts the last days of Nablus dwellers Said (Kais Nashef) and Khaled (Ali Suliman), two friends who are ordered to carry out a suicide attack to avenge the killing of a young Palestinian.
Assad’s quote can be found at the DIFF site.
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