"Eyes of a Thief" will be the seventh film of Palestine who will seek to win the Oscar nomination.
Although it has only submitted six films to the Oscar preselection to date best film in non-English languagePalestine already has two nominations, both won by filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad.
In 2006 Hany Abu-Assad's film "Paradise Now" won the country's first nomination in the Oscar, the second would come at the last edition of the Hollywood Academy Awards for "Omar", a film by the same filmmaker.
This time it will be Najwa Najjar who seeks the nomination for Palestine with his new film "Eyes of a Thief". This is the pseudo film by this director who debuted in 2008 with "Granadas y mirra" ("Al-mor wa al rumian"), a film that was awarded the Cinema in Motion Award at the San Sebastian Festival that same year.
«Eyes of a Thief“Based on real events, it tells the story of Tareq, a mysterious man who was wounded during the 2002 riots in Palestine and who is cared for by nuns who help him escape, but is finally caught by Israeli soldiers. Released ten years later, he encounters a totally different town with mixed secrets.
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