Festival Opening Ceremony & FILM screening of "Once upon a time in Gaza"
Schedule
Sat May 02 2026 at 06:30 pm to 09:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
The Cavendish Hotel | Eastbourne, EN
Join the 10th Eastbourne International Film Festival Opening Ceremony and discover Once Upon a Time in Gaza on the big screen.About this Event
Once Upon a Time In Gaza
By Tarzan & Arab Nasser
With: Nader Abd Alhay, Ramzi Maqdisi, Majd Eid
Gaza, 2007. Yahya, a young student, forges a friendship with Osama, a charismatic restaurant owner with a big heart. Together, they start peddling drugs while delivering falafel sandwiches, but they are soon forced to grapple with a corrupt cop and his oversized ego…
Press:
“Their latest work, Once Upon a Time in Gaza (…) does have a few things in common with Quentin Tarantino in its TV-show-within-a-movie plot”
The Hollywood Reporter
“Satirical, resonant follow-up to Gaza, Mon Amour”
SCREEN DAILY
“Great narrative freedom”
CINEUROPA
“A powerful ode to Palestinian resilience”
THE NATIONAL NEWS
https://vimeo.com/1087952932?fl=pl&fe=sh
Where is it happening?
The Cavendish Hotel, 38 Grand Parade, Eastbourne, United KingdomGBP 6.13 to GBP 9.38
