Maysaloun Hamoud
{{short description|Hungarian-born Israeli film director (born 1982)}}
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Maysaloun Hamoud (born 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian-born film director who is a Palestinian citizen of Israel. Her film Bar Bahar (In Between) won the NETPAC Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.
Biography
Maysaloun Hamoud was born in Budapest in 1982 to Israeli parents of Palestinian heritage. She grew up in Budapest and then Beersheba, Israel.{{cite web|publisher=NPR|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/03/26/520157038/new-film-spotlights-palestinian-women-navigating-life-in-between-cultures|author=Joanna Kakissis|date=26 March 2017|accessdate=8 December 2017|title=New Film Spotlights Palestinian Women Navigating Life 'In Between' Cultures}} She read Middle Eastern studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.{{cite news|newspaper=De Volkskrant|url=https://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/vijf-redenen-waarom-u-maysaloun-hamoud-moet-leren-kennen~a4535935/|language=nl|title=Vijf redenen waarom u Maysaloun Hamoud moet leren kennen|date=11 November 2017|accessdate=8 December 2017|author=Sacha Kester}} In 2004, introduced to cinema by an animator friend, she joined the Minshar School of Art in Tel-Aviv to study film.{{cite news|newspaper=Le Point|language=fr|url=http://www.lepoint.fr/monde/la-jeune-realisatrice-palestinienne-maysaloun-hamoud-visee-par-une-fatwa-08-03-2017-2110353_24.php#section-commentaires|title=La jeune réalisatrice palestinienne Maysaloun Hamoud visée par une fatwa|date=8 March 2017|accessdate=8 December 2017}}{{cite news|newspaper=Haaretz|url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.744659|author=Nirit Anderman|title='In Between,' About Three Palestinian Israelis Living in Tel Aviv, Dazzles San Sebastian Film Festival|date=27 September 2016|accessdate=8 December 2017}}{{cite news|newspaper=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/28/maysaloun-hamoud-female-director-israel-palestine|author=Nosheen Iqbal|accessdate=8 December 2017|date=28 September 2017|title=How sex, drugs and politics earned In Between's director a fatwa}}
Hamoud is an Israeli citizen.{{cite news|newspaper=Jerusalem Post|url=http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Coping-with-attacks-and-insults-514560|accessdate=8 December 2017|date=18 November 2017|author=Hannah Brown|title=Coping with attacks and insults}}
Career
Hamoud became a teacher after her graduation.
In 2010, Hamoud directed Sense of Morning, a short film inspired by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish's Memory of Forgetfulness (1987). In the film, the poet strives to continue his daily routine of coffee and cigarettes on the last day of the siege of Beirut.
At the Minshar School of Art, one of Hamoud's teachers was Shlomi Elkabetz, an Israeli film director. Hamoud developed her idea for the feature film Bar Bahar under his guidance and support. She has said that, according to him, her film is a sort of extension of Elkabetz's trilogy To Take a Wife (2004), Shiva (2007) and Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014).{{cite news|newspaper=Courrier International|language=fr|url=https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/cinema-maysaloun-hamoud-je-voulais-que-mon-film-soit-un-miroir-de-la-societe-arabe|title=Cinéma. Maysaloun Hamoud : "Je voulais que mon film soit un miroir de la société arabe israélienne"|date=11 April 2017|accessdate= 8 December 2017|author=Delphine Veaudor}}
Works
- (2010) Sense of Morning (short film)
- (2016) In Between (feature film){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/opinion/women-directors-middle-east.html|title=Where Can Women Make Movies? The Middle East|author=Nana Asfour|date= 10 January 2018|newspaper=The New York Times}}
- (2021) Nafas (short film){{Citation |title=Nafas |url=https://mubi.com/films/nafas |access-date=2023-05-08 |language=en}}
Honors
Hamoud's film Bar Bahar (In Between) won the NETPAC Award for World or International Asian Film Premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.{{cite web|publisher=Now Toronto|url=https://nowtoronto.com/movies/tiff-2016-and-the-winners-are/|title=TIFF 2016: and the winners are...|author=Norman Wilner|date=18 September 2016|accessdate=8 December 2017}} It also won three prizes, including the Sebastiane Award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 2016.
In 2017, Hamoud received the Women in Motion Young Talents Award at the Cannes Film Festival from Isabelle Huppert.{{cite web|publisher=Variety|url=https://variety.com/2017/film/global/isabelle-huppert-honored-with-cannes-women-in-motion-award-1202427069/|title=Isabelle Huppert Honored With Cannes Women in Motion Award|author=Pat Saperstein|date=15 May 2017|accessdate=8 December 2017}}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4092213/ Maysaloun Hamoud], IMDb
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Category:Hungarian emigrants to Israel
Category:Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Category:Arab citizens of Israel