The Present (2020)

Original title

الهدية

Directed by

Farah Nabulsi

Genre

drama film

Country

Palestine

Runtime

24 min

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 54 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A father and his young daughter try to buy a wedding anniversary gift in the West Bank. Their simple errand is complicated by checkpoints and delays.

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What happens

The Present (Arabic: الهدية, romanized: Al Hadiya, lit. 'The Gift') is a 2020 short film directed by Farah Nabulsi and co-written by Nabulsi and Hind Shoufani, about a father and daughter in the Palestinian enclaves of the Israeli-occupied West Bank trying to buy a wedding anniversary gift. The cast is led by Palestinian actor Saleh Bakri. It was released on Netflix on 18 March 2021, and won the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film in addition to being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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