AWFF 2021 - 200 Meters (Palestine) - Official Selection (In Competition)

AWFF is proud to present its Official Selection of 2021 Asian Oscar and Golden Globe submissions for Best International Feature Film and Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language respectively, along with a number of special and tribute screenings. The Festival aims to promote all films through physical and online screenings, panels, events and social media platforms, in order to assist the filmmakers in their campaigns for Award success.

1st Screening: Wednesday, November 3 - 1:00 pm. Auditorium 6.

2nd Screening: Thursday, November 4 - 7:00 pm. Auditorium 6.

Where: The Landmark Theater (10850 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064)

Note: Please print out your tickets or bring the electronic copies to the event in order to check you in

The Asian World Film Festival will require all guests entering any indoor screening, event or reception, to show full proof of vaccination OR a negative coronavirus test result, taken within the previous 72 hours, OR a medical or religious exemption form.

ABOUT THE FILM:

Genre: Drama, Jewish, Thriller

Duration: 96 Minutes

Director: Ameen Nayfeh

Language(s): Arabic, Hebrew, English

Subtitles: English

Producer: Mary Odeh

Screenwriter: Ameen Nayfeh

Cinematographer: Elin Kirschfink

Editor: Kamal El Mallakh

Sound: Francis Gaultier

Principal Cast: Ali Suliman, Anna Unterberger, Lana Zreik, Motaz Malhees

Synopsis:

Mustafa and his wife Salwa live 200 meters apart in villages separated by the Israeli border wall. One day he gets a call every parent dreads: his son has been injured in an accident. Rushing to cross the Israeli checkpoint, Mustafa is denied on a technicality. But a father’s love won’t give up and he will do anything to reach his son. A 200-meter distance becomes a 200-kilometer odyssey, as Mustafa, left with no choice, attempts to smuggle himself to the other side of the wall.

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About Asian World Film Festival:

The Festival is unique in that it predominantly screens international films from Asia submitted for the Academy Awards® and Golden Globes®

The Asian World Film Festival (AWFF), now in its fifth year, brings the best of a broad selection of Asian World cinema to Los Angeles in order to draw greater recognition to the region's wealth of Filmmakers and strengthen ties between the Asian and Hollywood film industries. Uniting through cross-cultural collaboration, the Festival champions films from more than 50 countries across Asia, spanning from Turkey to Japan and from Russia to India. This festival is unique in its concept as it predominantly screens films from countries within the Asian Continent that have been submitted to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and to the Golden Globes for Best Foreign Language Film.

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