| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film of the Year Palestine. |
Warner Independent Pictures
Directed by Hany Abu-Assad
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Bros.)
Two friends who work as mechanics are selected to become martyrs for the Palestine resistance movement. They have one day to say goodbye to friends and family before strapping on suicide belts. They cross the border into Israel through a hole in a fence, only to encounter a border patrol and gunfire on the other side. They hurry back into Palestine but get separated. One of them gets back to the organizers, but the other is lost. Eventually they are reunited and try again, but they are less certain if what they are doing is right. The film is more interested in motivations and moral questions rather than being an action film, and as a result is rather low key, especially given the subject matter. The change of heart of one of the friends was not particularly convincing, but the grim determination of the other one, for reasons more personal than political, was very real.
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