Type:
Feature Film
Director:
Saverio Costanzo
Year:
2004
Time:
90 minutes
Produced by:
Mario Gianani
Written by:
Saverio Costanzo, Sayed Qashua Camilla Costanzo and Alessio Cremonini
Edited by:
Francesca Calvelli
Language:
English, Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles
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Winner! FIPRESCI Jury Award
- The Intl. Fed. of Film Critics
Winner! Golden Leopard Award, Best Director
- Locarno Film Festival
Winner! Bronze Leopard Award, Best Actor, Mohammed Bakri
- Locarno Film Festival
“. . . acted with fierce conviction”
- Village Voice
“. . . captures [war’s] harrowing complexities with unerring accuracy"
- Toronto Int'l Film Festival
“. . . an effectively didactic thriller”
- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Inspired by real events, documentary filmmaker Saverio Costanzo's feature debut is a minimalist psychological drama about a Palestinian family of seven suddenly confronted with a volatile situation in their home that in many ways reflects the larger ongoing conflict between Palestine and Israel.
Winner of a Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival, Private is convincingly shot in a documentary style with a hand-held camera and a quick pace. Director Costanzo has created a unique occasion for both Israeli and Palestinian actors to work together, and being an outsider himself, he has worked to maintain a neutral standpoint while dramatizing the conflict.
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Official Selection of the 2005 Vancouver International Film Festival and San Francisco International Film Festival
Rental Information
This film is available from AFD on 35mm and video for public screenings and television broadcast. For information regarding rental rates and formats, please contact institutions@arabfilm.com for institutional/non-theatrical screenings, or festivals@arabfilm.com for theatrical, festival, television, or other bookings.
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