Hany Abu-Assad

Hany AbuAssad is a Palestinian film director writer and producer Born in Nazareth 1961 he is one of the most eminent Arab directors of our time He broke into filmmaking after working for several years as an flight engineer in The Netherlands In 1994 he produced the feature film Curfew directed by Rashid Masharawi Since then AbuAssad has written directed and produced several award winning films which include Nazareth 2000 Ranaâs Wedding Ford Transit Paradise Now The Courier Omar and The Idol His film Paradise Now was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language film His film Omar was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 2014 and won several awards The awards include the Independent Spirit Award Felix AwardBerlin Blue Angel Award Amnesty International Film Prize Golden Calf and the Jury Prize in the competition of Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival In 2017 AbuAssad directed The Mountain Between Us starring Kate Winslet and Idris Elba which opened the 39th edition of Cairo International Film Festival CIFF Hudaâs Salon is his latest feature film