Once Upon a Time in Gaza

2025

Drama, Comedy

87 mins

R-13

Once Upon a Time in Gaza

Director: Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser

Country of Production: France, Portugal, State of Palestine, Germany, UK

Festival Note

2007 in Gaza. Yahya and Osama (Nader Abd Alhay and Majd Eid) are friends working a small-time drug scheme that has them selling prescription medication at Osama’s falafel shop. The involvement of a crooked cop causes a violent end to their operation, and two years later, while reluctantly working on an action movie set, Yahya is presented with a possible chance at revenge.

Producer: Rani Massalha, Marie Legrand, Rashid Abdelhamid

Screenwriter: Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser

Editor: Sophie Reine

Director of Photography: Christophe Graillot

Cast: Nader Abd Alhay, Majd Eid, Ramzi Maqdisi, Is'haq Elias, Said Saada, Hussein Nakhleh

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