[[{"content_id":"123084","domain_id":"0","lang_id":"en","portal_id":"2","owner_id":"29","user_id":"1","view_accesslevel_id":"0","edit_accesslevel_id":"0","delete_accesslevel_id":"0","editor_id":"0","content_title":"Dubai festival awards Palestinian thriller 'Omar'","content_number":"0","content_date_event":"2013-12-14 13:13:48","content_summary":"It tells of a young Palestinian who dodges bullets to climb the separation wall built by Israel to see his fiance ...","content_summary_fill":"0","content_body":"Palestinian thriller "Omar", a tale of love, betrayal and struggle in the Israeli-occupied territories, on Friday scooped two top prizes at the Dubai International Film Festival.\r\n\t\r\n\tOmar won the DIFF awards in the best Arabic feature category and with Hany Abu Assad as best director of an Arabic feature.\r\n\t\r\n\tThe film had received a jury prize in the "Un Certain Regard" category at the Cannes festival.\r\n\t\r\n\tIt tells of a young Palestinian who dodges bullets to climb the separation wall built by Israel to see his fiance Nadia on the other side of their divided West Bank town.\r\n\t\r\n\tThe tale becomes complicated when Omar and his childhood friends, Amjad and Tarek, the brother of Nadia, launch a guerrilla attack on Israeli forces.\r\n\t\r\n\tOmar is arrested and then faces a struggle between loyalty to his friends and love under blackmail by intelligence agent Rami, who arranged his release to use him as an informant.\r\n\t\r\n\tDirector Abu Assad shot to prominence in 2006 with "Paradise Now" about two bombers.\r\n\t\r\n\tA total of 174 films from 57 different countries, including over 100 films from the Arab world, competed for awards in the 10th edition of the DIFF, which opened on December 6 and ends Saturday.","content_html":"

\r\n\tPalestinian thriller "Omar", a tale of love, betrayal and struggle in the Israeli-occupied territories, on Friday scooped two top prizes at the Dubai International Film Festival.
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\r\n\tOmar won the DIFF awards in the best Arabic feature category and with Hany Abu Assad as best director of an Arabic feature.
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\r\n\tThe film had received a jury prize in the "Un Certain Regard" category at the Cannes festival.
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\r\n\tIt tells of a young Palestinian who dodges bullets to climb the separation wall built by Israel to see his fiance Nadia on the other side of their divided West Bank town.
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\r\n\tThe tale becomes complicated when Omar and his childhood friends, Amjad and Tarek, the brother of Nadia, launch a guerrilla attack on Israeli forces.
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\r\n\tOmar is arrested and then faces a struggle between loyalty to his friends and love under blackmail by intelligence agent Rami, who arranged his release to use him as an informant.
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\r\n\tDirector Abu Assad shot to prominence in 2006 with "Paradise Now" about two bombers.
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\r\n\tA total of 174 films from 57 different countries, including over 100 films from the Arab world, competed for awards in the 10th edition of the DIFF, which opened on December 6 and ends Saturday.<\/p>","content_source":null,"content_url":null,"content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2013-12-14 13:13:48","content_date_finish":"2013-12-14 13:13:48","content_date_register":"2013-12-14 13:13:48","content_date_last_edit":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"1","content_show_related_img":"1","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"0","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"1","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"121343","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"1093457952","attach_date_register":"2013-12-14 13:13:52","attach_id":"115874","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"390","attach_img_height":"250","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"359","visit_date_last":"2025-05-09 06:03:02","attach_title":"Dubai festival awards Palestinian thriller 'Omar'","node_title":"news","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":122, \"left\":2, \"right\":53}]"}]]