WATCH THE OSCAR SHORTLISTED FILM “FROM GROUND ZERO” – filmed in Gaza last year! IN THEATERS NOW!

Friends,

I personally have the honor to inform you that Palestine’s nomination for this year’s Oscars®, the brilliant film FROM GROUND ZEROwas recently voted on by members of the Motion Picture Academy — one of 15 films in the world — for this year’s Oscar shortlist for BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM. I am a proud executive producer of this acclaimed film – AND IT OPENS TODAY in theaters across America.

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FROM GROUND ZERO, the first film from Gaza to be named an Oscar finalist in the category that honors what was once known as the best foreign film of the year, is unlike any film you’ve ever seen – filmed during a massive massacre of more than 50,000 civilians, the vast majority of them children, women and the elderly. In one hour and fifty-two minutes, fast and powerful, it brings together 22 short films made by 22 courageous Palestinian filmmakers living and surviving in Gaza over the past year – all told in less than 2 hours!

These are stories that are not told anywhere. You don’t see these stories on the evening news. Military leaders are barring access so that journalists and filmmakers cannot bring us the truth. Even though you and I are paying for this war and are the suppliers of all these horrible weapons, we are not allowed to witness what Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have called genocide and ethnic cleansing – crimes of war committed every day in the country. our name. Instead, we are the victims of a powerful propaganda campaign designed to dehumanize the 5 million human beings throughout the occupied Palestinian territories who are forced to live imprisoned behind walls and barbed wire, forced into starvation, Almost all of Gaza’s hospitals and schools were bombed into smithereens, with half of the country’s homes reduced to ruins.

(For people under 50 reading this, not a single Palestinian built a single oven or gas chamber during the Holocaust that cost the lives of 6 million Jews. Not a single Palestinian did stopped boats full of Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis to land in New York, Boston, Baltimore or Miami. This, along with all the other horrors perpetrated against the Jewish people during the Second War. world, were 100% committed by white Christian Europeans and their descendants and cousins ​​who did not let them into the United States to save their lives. 5 million of the 6 million dead were already massacred.

And yet, someone decided that it was… Palestinians who should pay the price???? Someone is not telling us the truth.)

That this film exists is something of a human and cinematic miracle. I sincerely want you to find a theater showing it this weekend and go see it. By the time it ends next month, it will be playing in more than 150 theaters. Below you will find, by city, those where it opened today (January 3). New ones will be added next week.

My friends, FROM GROUND ZERO blends dramatic narrative, documentary, animation — all film genres to make one of the most compelling films you’ll see this year. Working with whatever tools they could extract from the rubble of their homes and towns, these filmmakers came together to share these stories with us. And their work is already honored. In that first round of voting, Academy voters declared it an exceptional film. It is filmmakers who vote, not politicians and experts. They recognize this brilliant film for what it is: A masterpiece of great art.

Don’t skip this movie because “Oh, it’s Gaza” Or “I can’t take it anymore” — go see it for the same reason you went to see all the big, important films, from ERIN BROCKOVICH to CHINA SYNDROME to 12 YEARS A SLAVE to OPPENHEIMER. As executive producer of the film, I promise you, you will not be disappointed.

Find the cinema closest to you here:

– or consult the full list of theaters currently showing this powerful film, departure TODAY, January 3, below:

AMC Westgate 20 • Glendale, Arizona

AMC Ahwatukee 24 • Phoenix, Arizona

Harkins Theaters Shea 14 • Scottsdale, Arizona

AMC Covina 17 • Covina, California

AMC Dining On-site Fullerton 20 • Fullerton, California

AMC Orange 30 • Orange, California

AMC Rolling Hills 20 • Torrance, California

Laemmle Glendale Cinema • Glendale, California

Laemmle Monica Cinema Center • Santa Monica, California

Roxie Theater • San Francisco, California

AMC Arapahoe Crossing 16 • Aurora, Colorado

AMC Dining in the Southlands 16 • Aurora, Colorado

AMC Flatiron Crossing14 • Broomfield, Colorado

AMC Highlands Ranch 24 • Highlands Ranch, Colorado

AMC Westminster Promenade 24 • Westminster, Colorado

Cinema Suns • Washington, D.C.

Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market • Washington, D.C.

AMC Hialeah 12 • Hialeah, Florida

AMC Pompano Beach 18 • Pompano Beach, Florida

AMC Sunset Place 24 • South Miami, Florida

AMC Chênes de l’Ouest 14 • Ocoee, Florida

AMC Highlands 20 • Tampa, Florida

AMC Veterans 24 • Tampa, Florida

Sun-Ray Cinema • Tampa, Florida

AMC NEW TOWN 14 • Chicago, IL

AMC Rivière Est 21 • Chicago, IL

AMC Crestwood18 • Crestwood, IL

AMC Evanston 12 • Evanston, IL

AMC Career Cinemas 14 • Hodgkins, IL

Marcus Theaters Cinema Orland Park 15 • Orland Park, IL

Crossing the village AMC 18 • Skokie, IL

AMC On-Site Dining Studio 28 • Olathe, KS

AMC Dinner-in Prairiefire 17 • Overland Park, Kansas

AMC Boston Common 19 • Boston, Massachusetts

AMC Liberty Tree Mall 20 • Danvers, Massachusetts

AMC Methuen 20 • Methuen, MA

AMC owes factories 17 • Owings Mills, MD

AMC Dine-in Cinemas Rio 18 • Gaithersburg, Maryland

AMC Forum 30 • Sterling Heights, Michigan

AMC Coon Rapides 16 • Coon Rapids, Minnesota

AMC Eden Prairie Shopping Center 18 • Eden Prairie, Minnesota

AMC Southdale 16 • Edina, Minnesota

AMC Inver Grove 16 • Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota

View of Classic Mounds AMC 15 • View of the Mounds, Minnesota

AMC Rosedale 14 • Roseville, Minnesota

Marcus West End Cinema • St. Louis Park, Minnesota

AMC Jersey Gardens 20 • Elizabeth, New Jersey

AMC New Brunswick 18 • New Brunswick, New Jersey

AMC Cherry Hill 24 • Cherry Hill Township, New Jersey

AMC Voorhees 16 • Voorhees Township, New Jersey

Quad Cinemas • New York, New York

Cincinnati World Cinema at the Garfield Theater • Cincinnati, Ohio

Clinton Street Theater • Portland, Oregon

AMC Neshaminy 24 • Bensalem, Pennsylvania

AMC Dinner-in Stonebriar 24 • Frisco, TX

AMC 24 vineyard mills • Grapevine, Texas

AMC Dining On-site Mesquite 30 • Mesquite, Texas

AMC Gulf Pointe 30 • Houston, TX

AMC Willowbrook 24 • Houston, TX

AMC Fountains 18 • Stafford, TX

AMC First Colony 24 • Sugar Land, Texas

AMC Hoffman Center 22 • Alexandria, Virginia

AMC Potomac 18 Mills • Woodbridge, Virginia

AMC Tysons Corner 16 • McLean, Virginia

The Grande Illusion cinema • Seattle, Washington

AMC Fitchburg 18 • Fitchburg, Wisconsin

AMC Classic Desert Star 15 Theater • Lake Delton, Wisconsin

And finally, take a look at this amazing review from RogerEbert.com which was just released this evening:

“From Ground Zero” is a rare work for which superlatives are not only insufficient but unnecessary. It is an anthology of 22 short topics written by Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip. Most last a few minutes. Some are nonfiction, others are scripted dramas, and others are hybrids, in the neorealist tradition created by Italians who cobbled together personal, painful art in the ruins of World War II.

Overseen by director-producer Rashid Masharawi, it’s a stunning achievement, and not just because of its existence. Like many documentaries about Ukraine released after the Russian invasion, it shows you what daily life on the ground is like during a genocide as a mechanized army targets civilian buildings; killing non-combatants, including children; and forcing survivors to scramble to find basic necessities like food and water. But “From Ground Zero” has value beyond its reporting on hell in that it shows that after a catastrophe, art is not only still possible but necessary — and that digital technology allows people to continue to preserve and share their stories, even after losing almost everything else.

And that’s just the first two paragraphs! Read the rest of this review here.

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