Najwa Najjar
Najwa Najjar (Arabic: نجوى نجار) is a film writer and director. She was born to a Jordanian father and Palestinian mother. She began her career making commercials and has worked in both documentary and fiction since 1999. Najjar lives in the Palestinian Territories.[1]
works
[edit]Her debut feature film Pomegranates and Myrrh won 10 awards,[which?] and was released theatrically and screened at over 80 international festivals.[2][3][4] When the film was first screened in Ramallah, there was public outcry by the Hamas Government in Gaza[5] over the film's portrayal of "what was deemed its 'unpatriotic' portrayal of an untrustworthy wife of a political prisoner."[6] At the Doha Tribeca Film Festival, the film won the Best Arab Film award.[7][8]
The 1999 documentary film Naim and Wadee’a was based on Najjar's family and includes the oral histories of Na’im Azar and Wadee’a Aghabi, a couple who were forced to leave their Jaffa home in 1948. The film won the Award for Films of Conflict and Resolution at the 2000 Hamptons International Film Festival.[9]
Her film, Eyes of a Thief, was the official Palestinian submission to the 87th Academy Awards.[1][10]
Filmography
[edit]The following are some of the films he has made:[11][12]
- Naim and Wadee’a (1999)
- Quintessence of Oblivion (2000)
- A Boy Named Mohamed (2001)
- Blue Gold (2004)
- They Came from the East (2004)
- Yasmine Tughani (2006)
- Pomegranates and Myrrh (2009)
- Eyes of a Thief (2014)
- Between Heaven and Earth (2019)
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Najwa Najjar". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- ^ "Palestinian drama 'Pomegranates and Myrrh' opens in UAE at Eid". Al Bawaba. 29 August 2011. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- ^ Anderson, John (15 July 2009). "Pomegranates and Myrrh". Variety. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- ^ Chaudhary, Suchitra Bajpai (16 September 2011). "My world: Film-maker Najwa Najjar". Gulf News. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- ^ Kuttab, Daoud (4 May 2009). "Palestinians Angry About Portrayal of Prisoners' Wife by Palestinian Filmmaker". Huffington Post. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- ^ Ball, Anna (2012). Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective. New York: Routledge. pp. 70–71, 182–183. ISBN 978-0-415-88862-2.
- ^ Ebiri, Bilge (4 November 2009). "6 Best Middle Eastern Films From Doha-Tribeca Fest". Vulture. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- ^ Jaafar, Ali (4 December 2009). "Rab Pack: the Arab new wave". Variety. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- ^ Farsoun, Samih K. (2004). Culture and Customs of the Palestinians. Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: Greenwood Press. p. 121. ISBN 978-0-313-32051-4.
Najwa Najjar.
- ^ "Fabbrica dei Progetti La Selezione del 2011" (PDF). Fondazione Cinema per Roma. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- ^ Najjar, Najwa (18 April 2008). "How cinema helped me to survive in Palestine". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- ^ "Najwa Najjar". Festival Scope. Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
General references
[edit]- Goodfellow, Melanie (6 December 2019). "Najwa Najjar talks about her middle-class Palestinian divorce drama 'Between Heaven And Earth'". Screen Daily. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- "'Between Heaven and Earth': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. 31 January 2020. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- Salwa, Ola (26 November 2019). "Review: Between Heaven and Earth". Cineuropa. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- Aftab, Kaleem (13 February 2020). "Why a destroyed Palestinian village is the real star of 'Between Heaven and Earth'". The National. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- Mustafa, Hani (3 December 2019). "CIFF41: Endless joy". Ahram Online. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- "((بين الجنة و الارض)) صرخة فلسطينية في وجه الظلم". Alshira (in Arabic). 5 December 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- Rothe, E. Nina (19 November 2019). "3 Must-Watch Arab Movies By Female Filmmakers To Watch At The Cairo International Film Festival". Harper's Bazaar Arabia. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
External links
[edit]- Najwa Najjar at IMDb
- Interview with Najjar at the 2009 Edinburgh International Film Festival
- Women vs Occupation in Pomegranates and Myrrh
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