200 Meters (2020)

Original title

٢٠٠ متر

Directed by

Ameen Nayfeh

Genre

drama film, adventure film

Country

Palestine

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

16

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 54 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Palestinian father lives on one side of the separation wall and his wife and son live on the other. When his son is injured, he must find a way to cross the 200-meter distance between them despite the barriers.

tensefrustratingurgentemotionally chargedrealisticslow-burngrittyfamily-oriented

What happens

200 Meters (Arabic: 200 متر) is a 2020 adventure drama film written and directed by Ameen Nayfeh in his feature-length debut. The film premiered in the 17th edition of the Giornate degli Autori section at the 77th Venice International Film Festival on 9 September 2020, where it won the BNL People's Choice Audience Award. It was selected as the Jordanian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. It won the IFFI ICFT UNESCO Gandhi Medal at 51st International Film Festival of India in January 2021. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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