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Najwa Najjar
Palestinian film director and screenwriter
Najwa Najjar (Arabic: نجوى نجار) is a film writer and director.
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She was born to a Jordanian father and Palestinian mother. She began her career making commercials and has worked in both documentary and fiction since 1999. Najjar lives in the Palestinian Territories.[1]
works
Her debut feature film Pomegranates and Myrrh won 10 awards,[which?] and was released theatrically and screened at over 80 international festivals.[2][3][4] When the film was first screened in Ramallah, there was public outcry by the Hamas Government in Gaza[5] over the film's portrayal of "what was deemed its 'unpatriotic' portrayal of an untrustworthy wife of a political prisoner."[6] At the Doha Tribeca Film Festival, the film won the Best Arab Film award.[7][8]
The 1999 documentary film Naim and Wadee’a was based on Najjar's family and includes the