{"id":607,"date":"2013-12-14T16:53:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T16:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=607"},"modified":"2013-12-15T16:57:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T16:57:56","slug":"palestinian-film-omar-grabs-awards-at-dubai-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/palestinian-film-omar-grabs-awards-at-dubai-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian film \u2018Omar\u2019 grabs awards at Dubai film festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dubai-festival-awards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-608\" alt=\"Dubai festival awards\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dubai-festival-awards-300x236.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>Palestinian film \u201cOmar,\u201d directed by Hany Abu Assad has won Best Director and Best Film as part of the best Arabic Feature category at the 2013 Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) on Friday.<br \/>\nThe Oscar-nominated film, which screened at Cannes Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival, opened the 10th edition of DIFF on Dec. 6.<br \/>\nThe film tells the dramatic story of a Palestinian man named Omar and the humiliating treatment he receives on a daily basis in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and during his time in prison.<br \/>\nThe film is also Palestine\u2019s submission for Best Foreign Film at the 2014 Academy Awards.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/palestinian-film-omar-grabs-awards-at-dubai-film-festival\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian film \u201cOmar,\u201d directed by Hany Abu Assad has won Best Director and Best Film as part of the best Arabic Feature category at the 2013 Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) on Friday. The Oscar-nominated film, which screened at Cannes Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival, opened the 10th edition of DIFF on Dec. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}