Academy Award Nominee Hany Abu Assad's Film Omar Premiers in U.S. Theaters

posted on: Feb 21, 2014

Two-time Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner (Paradise Now), Director Hany Abu Assad brings us Omar — the first Palestinian feature film to be almost entirely financed by Palestinians and where all major cast and crew are Palestinian. OMAR depicts Palestinian life as never before seen in an Oscar nominated film! Hailed as a “masterpiece”, Omar wowed audiences at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, winning the coveted Jury Prize.

Omar will open in over 40 US Cities on Friday, February 21 and we are working hard to mobilize our communities for a strong opening week. Early Box Office results will dictate how long Omar plays in theaters – so, we ask you to please rally as many of your people as possible to see what the critics are raving about:

“AN INCREDIBLE LOVE STORY”
– Betsy Sharkey, LA Times

“The unpredictable climax to this political thriller is pure genius.”
-Howard Feinstein, Filmmaker Magazine

“A swift thriller…illuminates the unevenly shared predicament of Palestinians on the West Bank
and the Israelis who police them.”
— A.O. Scott, The New York Times

For a list of showtimes and more information, please visit: www.adoptfilms.com/omar

OMAR SYNOPSIS:
A tense, gripping thriller about betrayal, suspected and real, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. By day, Omar (Adam Bakri) is a baker who must routinely climb over the separation wall, dodging bullets, to be with Nadia, the love of his life (Leem Lubany). By night, he’s ready to risk himself to strike at the Israeli military with his childhood friends Tarek (Eyad Hourani) and Amjad (Samer Bisharat). Arrested after the killing of an Israeli soldier and tricked into an admission of guilt by association, Omar agrees to work as an informant. So begins a dangerous game—is he playing his Israeli handler Rami (Waleed F. Zuaiter) or will Omar really betray his cause to be with the woman he loves? Palestinian filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now) has made a dynamic, action-packed tour de force about the insoluble moral dilemmas and impossible choices facing those living across a riven Palestinian landscape.