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Nizar Hassan

Nizar Hassan

Sector : Media, Directors

Personal Info

  • Country of residence: Palestine
  • Gender: Male
  • Born in: 1960
  • Age: 62
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Nizar Hassan (born in 1960) in the village of Al Mashhad, Nazareth District, is an independent Palestinian director, producer, author and screenwriter.

 

Biography

Influenced since his childhood by the reality of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, since he began his cinematic career in 1990, he focused during his career in documentary film and presented it in a new style, where he took the highlighting of photographic tools as an essential factor in his cinematic language. His works have won Arab and international admiration at festivals such as Leipzig, Edva, Marseille, the Arab World Festival and Ismailia.

 

His professional career

He practiced cinema without education. He worked as an assistant in foreign films related to the reality of Palestine for two years, then began directing promotional films for the “Charity Films” Foundation in East Jerusalem, which deals with Palestinian cinematic folklore.

 

His first work in Palestinian cinema was the movie “Independence” in 1994. After that, the movie “Yasmine” in 1996, which was its entrance to European festivals, was chosen as a film with a new cinematic style at the “Documenta” festival that year, which was held in Berlin, and it was the first Palestinian and Arab film to be seen. Him as well and displays under this framework.

 

As for the Arab world, the movie Ostoura, which was shown at the 1998 “September” festival in Beirut, was its entrance to the Arab world.

 

work

movies

Tomorrow's Swords (1990)

On His Mother (1990)

Games (1992)

Women in a Men's World (1993)

Bethlehem (1993)

Independence (1994)

Words (1995)

Yasmine (1969),

Legend (1998)

Kat (2000)

invasion (2000)

Challenge (2003)

Karam Alo Khalil (2005)

South (2008)

River Gate (2016)

Sir Road (three parts and an eight-part version) (2020)

Produce

Haida Lebanon (2007)

Return to Self (2007)

Sleepless Nights (2012)

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