A Boy, A Wall and A Donkey

Palestine | 2008 | 5 min | Narrative Three boys in search of a camera to shoot their film, find themselves confronted with the separation wall and its surveillance tools. A film by Hany Abu-Assad Hany Abu-Assad was born in Nazareth, Palestine in 1961. After having studied and worked as an airplane engineer in The Netherlands for several years, Abu-Assad entered the world of cinema as a producer. In 1998, he directed his first film, “The Fourteenth Chick”, from a script by writer Arnon Grunberg, followed by his documentary “Nazareth 2000”, his second feature film “Rana's Wedding” and his second documentary “Ford Transit”. In 2005, his film “Paradise Now” about two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in Tel Aviv, was nominated for the Academy Award (OSCARS) for Best Foreign Language Film. The film won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language film in 2006. In 2011, Hany Abu-Assad finished working on “The Courier”. In 2013, he finished working on “OMAR”, a tragic love story set in occupied Palestine. “OMAR” won the Jury Prize in the competition of Un Certain Regard at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, has been nominated for the Academy award (OSCARS) for Best Foreign Language Film 2014 and received the Best Film award at the Dubai Film Festival. In 2015, Hany Abu-Assad completed his sixth feature film "The Idol". In 2017, he directed “The Mountain Between Us”. The film came out worldwide the same year and stars Kate Winslet and Idris Elba, with 20th Century Fox as the studio, and Peter Chernin Entertainment as producers. “Huda’s Salon” is his latest feature film.