{"id":32163,"date":"2016-09-23T16:18:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T22:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=32163"},"modified":"2016-09-23T16:18:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T22:18:18","slug":"oscars-2017-in-first-israel-selects-all-arabic-film-as-its-foreign-language-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/oscars-2017-in-first-israel-selects-all-arabic-film-as-its-foreign-language-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars 2017: In first, Israel selects all-Arabic film as its foreign language entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 For the first time, Israel has selected a film entirely in Arabic to represent the country at the Academy Awards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSand Storm\u201d won six Ophir Awards \u2014 Israel\u2019s equivalent of the Oscars given out by the Israeli Academy of Film and Television \u2014 on Thursday, including for best film. The winner of the best film award is entered as Israel\u2019s submission for the foreign film award at the next year\u2019s Oscars.<\/p>\n<p>A family drama set in the Bedouin community &#8212; a largely poor and often marginalized subset of the Israeli population &#8212; &#8220;Sand Storm&#8221; is the feature debut for Elite Zexer, a Jewish Israeli. At this year\u2019s Sundance Film Festival, it won the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Dramatic section.<\/p>\n<p>Miri Regev, Israel\u2019s minister of culture and sport, caused a stir at the Ophir Awards show in Ashdod, walking out in protest while Arab-Israeli rapper Tamer Nafar performed a poem by the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. Regev returned to present the best film award and was loudly booed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a lot of tolerance for the \u2018other,\u2019 but I have no tolerance for Darwish and anyone who wants to eliminate Israel,\u201d Regev said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSand Storm\u201d will be released in the United States on Wednesday, starting at New York City\u2019s Film Forum.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli films have been nominated for the best foreign film Oscar 10 times but have never won the award.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Oscars%202017%3A%20In%20first%2C%20Israel%20selects%20all-Arabic%20film%20as%20its%20foreign%20language%20entry\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7139],"tags":[1574,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32164,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32163\/revisions\/32164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}