{"id":27137,"date":"2020-01-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/arab-films-oscars-2020\/"},"modified":"2022-09-03T17:51:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T17:51:45","slug":"arab-films-oscars-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/arab-films-oscars-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Arab Films Are Nominated for an Oscar This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Nadine Labaki\u2019s Oscar-nominated \u2018Capernaum<\/a>\u2019 to Ramy Youssef<\/a>\u2019s recent Golden Globes win, over the last few years, we\u2019ve bore witness to a steep rise in Arab talent across the film industry, both in front of and behind the camera.<\/span><\/p>\n

So it should come as no surprise that when the list of Academy Awards 2020 nominations were released, four Arab films were announced as being in the running. Surprisingly, none have been flung in the Foreign Film category, instead they\u2019ve been placed in the Action Short category as well as the Documentary Feature category.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From Tunisia to Syria<\/a>, here are the Arab films that are in the running for this year\u2019s Oscars.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Cave<\/h2>\n

\"AFayyad<\/a> tells the story of Amani Ballour, a paediatrician working in a makeshift hospital in Eastern Ghouta. Risking her life, Ballour stays in her war-torn town to provide medical aid to the people.\u00a0The film is nominated for Best Documentary feature.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Adam by Maryam Touzani<\/h2>\n

\"aFirst screened at the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes Film Festival this year, \u2018Adam\u2019 has been building Oscars buzz ever since. The film, which marks Touzani\u2019s directorial debut, tells the story of a woman named Abla who runs a bakery in Casablanca whose life is interrupted after an unmarried pregnant woman knocks on her door.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Brotherhood<\/h2>\n

\"aDirected by Tunisian filmmaker Myriam Jeboor. The film is cantered around a Tunisian man who returns to his homeland with a Syrian wife that wears the niqab. The man is faced with familial suspicion that he had been secretly fighting for ISIS, igniting tensions between the couple, and the family. \u2018Brotherhood\u2019 is nominated in the Live Action Short Film category.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nefta Football Club<\/h2>\n

\"aAlso nominated in the Live Action Short Film category is \u2018Nefta Football Club\u2019. Directed by French director Yves Piat, the film stars young actors Eltayef Dhaoui, Mohamed Ali Ayari, Lyes Salem and Hichem Mesbah. The film tells the story of children living in a Tunisian village, where they play football on a wasteland. They wind up finding a donkey with headphones on his ears and bags full of white powder on his back. The young brothers end up taking the bags back.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Nadine Labaki\u2019s Oscar-nominated \u2018Capernaum\u2019 to Ramy Youssef\u2019s recent Golden Globes win, over the last few years, we\u2019ve bore witness to a steep rise in Arab talent across the film industry, both in front of and behind the camera. So it should come as no surprise that when the list of Academy Awards 2020 nominations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":27142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4190],"tags":[6529,9912,8090,11324,5375,5720,4202,9914,11325,11326,9703,6609,11058],"primary_tag":[5376],"ppma_author":[4226],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":4226,"user_id":16,"is_guest":0,"slug":"milleteam","display_name":"Mille Team","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3efa852a4a27023eb0b89acfd128ed1a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27146,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27137\/revisions\/27146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27137"},{"taxonomy":"primary_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/primary_tag?post=27137"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=27137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}