Director | Writer | Art Department. The freedom to love who you want or live how you like does not come, says Maysaloun Hamoud, without consequence. She is a director and writer, known for In Between (2016), Sense of … Upon its release, a fatwa (Islamic religious ruling) and death threats were issued against Palestinian director Maysaloun Hamoud for depicting partying, drug use and homosexuality in the movie. I've had great reaction from both men and women. "I think I have a job to develop my society and that means changing reality. We don’t take what we deserve.” The main problem for her critics, she thinks, is that she, and her three female characters in the film, won’t be quiet or subdued.

", In Between has since been nominated for 12 Ophir Awards - Israel's version of the Oscars, while Hamoud was given the best young talent award by the Women in Motion movement at the Cannes Film Festival this year, with Isabelle Huppert calling the three women characters of the film "heroines of our time.". A fatwa was issued against the director, Maysaloun Hamoud, who is a Palestinian born in Hungary but now resident in Jaffa. She read Middle Eastern studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "I think some people watching it actually thought it was real life, and this is when the local leaders said they were ashamed of it, and started to go against the movie, and started talking about closing the cinemas down where it was playing. [7], Hamoud's film Bar Bahar (In Between) won the NETPAC Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. Video, Composer with dementia meets students he inspired, US election 2020: How Trump has changed the world, Coronavirus: US cases reach record high amid new wave of infections, Osiris-Rex: Nasa probe risks losing asteroid sample after door jams, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: 'Execution' video prompts war crime probe, US Election 2020: Biden seeks to clarify remark on ending oil, Virus to stay 'at least until next summer' - France's Macron. Away from the traditions of their families, they find themselves "in between" the free lives they're aspiring to lead and the restrictions still imposed on them. But that hype – as fun as it is – also undermines Hamoud’s obvious talent: the film is compelling because it’s so skilfully understated, and the cast (about 90% of whom were in front of a camera for the first time) are so good. In Between emits an idealistic spirit to create unity, and Hamoud equally looks towards feminism as a unifying framework for the contemporary world. The film is successful all over the world because people can relate.”, She buzzes with stories of young people who have contacted her since watching the film. Video, Composer with dementia meets students he inspired. Hamoud developed her idea for the feature film Bar Bahar under his guidance and support. Her passion for 90s Hollywood films and B-movies finally seems to be paying off; In Between has won awards at the Toronto, San Sebastian, Haifa and Cannes film festivals.

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"More people started coming to see the film to see what all the fuss was about, and it ended up playing at cinemas for months. "So my film was declared "haram", the fatwa issued, and we started getting death threats. "I wanted to take provocative action, we need to shake things up and see different things on screen. Maysaloun Hamoud was born in Budapest in 1982 to Palestinian parents. The story of three young Arab women navigating love and life in Tel Aviv has caused walkouts and won prizes, Thu 28 Sep 2017 13.14 EDT “The community I show in the film has developed in the last 10 years – and I’m proud of it,” she says.

She grew up in Budapest and then Beersheba, Israel. “Feminism is political because whoever is in charge has a position of power. [9] It also won three prizes, including the Sebastiane Award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 2016.

In the film, the poet strives to continue his daily routine of coffee and cigarettes on the last day of the siege of Beirut. Sana Jammelieh, Shaden Kanboura and Mouna Hawa star in In Between When 35-year-old Maysaloun Hamoud, a Palestinian director, said she wanted to "stir things up" with her movies - … We meet on a north London canalside on a crisp autumn morning, overlooking the ducks and houseboats, which she finds kookily quaint. The film has been boycotted back home, decreed haram by religious leaders and earned Hamoud the first fatwa to be issued in Palestine since 1948. It opened on seven screens across Britain on Friday, and is showing at 28 screens this week, with more cinemas picking it up nationwide.

If we keep making things that people think they want to see then it's not art, it's not cinema.

It is a surprise to her that she is still asked – twice the night before, once at a screening Q&A and then on Newsnight – whether she expected her film to resonate. Read about our approach to external linking. The film is rated R16 in New Zealand for violence, sexual violence, drug use and offensive language. "But you know, there is no such thing as bad publicity," she adds.

[2] In 2004, introduced to cinema by an animator friend, she joined the Minshar School of Art in Tel-Aviv to study film.

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Maysaloun Hamoud was born in Budapest in 1982 to Palestinian parents.