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Director: Hany Abu-Assad
Writer(s): Hany Abu-Assad and Bero Beyer
Cast: Kais Nashif, Ali Suliman and Lubna Azabal
PARADISE NOW follows two Palestinian childhood friends who have been recruited for a strike on Tel Aviv and focuses on their last days together. When they are intercepted at the Israeli border and separated from their handlers, a young woman who discovers their plan causes them to reconsider their actions.
“takes away both your breath and your ability to get out of your seat.” – Jack Matthews, New York Daily News
“A risk-taking but enlightening film that takes the novel approach of examining the Israeli-Arab impasse from the perspective of the Palestinians.” – Bill Muller, Arizona Republic
“A powerful, poignant, provocative drama, it gets its strength from its dispassion, from an uncompromising determination to explain rather than justify or condemn, to put a human face on incomprehensible acts.” – Kenneth Turran, Los Angeles Times
Film introductions by professors Katarzyna Marciniak and Michael Gillespie.
Sponsored by The College of Arts and Sciences, Making and Breaking the Law Theme, and the Wealth and Poverty Theme.
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90 MIN
