“Not Just Any Sea!” encapsulates the yearning of Palestinians trapped in the West Bank for beachy shores that they are forbidden from visiting. In a romantic gesture, with waves caressing her feet, filmmaker Nahed Awwad appears to have a poetic longing for her lover. In a three minute monologue, her agony is revealed to be instigated by border entrapment.
Nahed Awwad is a Palestinian independent filmmaker and a film curator; based in Berlin. She has been working in Film and Television since 1997. She participated in several professional training in Canada, Qatar, and Belgium. In 2004 she got her film diploma from the European film college in Denmark. She released eight documentary films between experimental, short and feature length. Awwad’s films were screened at various international film festivals, to mention few; HotDocs film festival, Canada 2013, “one world” Human right film festival in Prague, 2013, Vision du Reel Film Festival, Nyon, Switzerland in 2005 and 2008 and the Cannes Film Festival in 2008 (Cinema Sud). In 2009 she was granted the International Trailblazer Tribute -Middle East Trailblazer in MIPDOC.
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