| Rashid Masharawi | |
|---|---|
| رشيد مشهراوي | |
| Born | 1962 (1962) Gaza City |
| Nationality | Palestinian |
| Occupation | Film Director |
Rashid Masharawi (also: "Rashid Mashrawi") (Arabic: رشيد مشهراوي) is a Palestinian film director, born in Gaza in 1962 to a family of refugees from Jaffa. He grew up in the Shati refugee camp.
Rashid Masharawi lives and works in Ramallah, where he founded the Cinema Production and Distribution Center in 1996 with the aim of promoting local film productions. He also sponsors a mobile cinema, which allows him to screen films in Palestinian refugee camps. Other projects include the annual Kids Film Festival and major workshops on film production and directing. Rashid Masharawi regularly organises readings and discussion forums at the Al-Matal cultural centre. Through his documentaries and feature films, he has made a name for himself as a film artist and has received several film awards.
Filmography
- Travel Document (1987)
- The Shelter, (1989) Fiction
- Dar o dur (1991)
- The Magician (1992)
- Curfew (Hatta Ishaar Akhar) (1994) At the Cannes International Film Festival he was awarded the Unesco Film Award for Curfew (1994) and received the audience and critics’ prize for the best film at the Montpellier Film Festival.
- Haifa (1996)
- Rabab (1997)
- Tension (1998)
- Love Season (2001)
- Ticket to Jerusalem [fr] (2002), feature film won a number of awards.
- Live from Palestine, (2002) Docu. 57 min.
- Homemovie (2002)
- Checkpoint (2002)
- Waiting, (2005) Film / TV, Feature film.
- Arafat, My Brother, Film, (2005) / TV, Documentary
- Laila's Birthday (2008)
- Land of the Story (2012)
- Palestine Stereo (2013)
- Letters From Al Yarmouk (2014)
- Writing On Snow (2017)
- From Ground Zero (2024)
See also
References
- Gertz & Khleifi 2008, p. 43
- "Rashid Masharawi". Center for Palestine Studies | Columbia University. Archived from the original on 13 January 2017.
- "Profile: Rashid Masharawi: The director who restored Palestinian peoples' humanity". Daily News Egypt. 8 October 2018. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
- ^ "Rashid Masharawi". haus.0. 26 March 2002. Archived from the original on 4 July 2010.
- "Dar o dur (1991)". IDFA. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
- "The Magician". Africiné. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
- ^ "Intifada excluded". culturebase.net. Archived from the original on 21 October 2004.
- "Rabab". vprogids.nl. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
- "Tension". vprogids.nl. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
- "Ticket Pour Jérusalem". Africiné. Archived from the original on 13 April 2016.
- "Ticket to Jerusalem". cineuropa.org. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
- Ali Abunimah (8 May 2006). "Film Review: Rashid Masharawi's "Waiting"". The Electronic Intifada. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
- Rashid Masharawi at IMDb
- "Letters from Al-Yarmouk". Toronto Palestine Film Festival. 27 September 2015. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
- "Writing on Snow". Malmo Arab Film Festival. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
- "From Ground Zero". Toronto Film Festival. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
External links
- An Interview with the Palestinian Filmmaker Rashid Masharawi by Fareed Armaly, April 2002
- Rashid Masharawi - filmmaker by Monique Roffey, Paul Prillevitz, and Khaled Hourani, 19.06.2006
- Rashid Masharawi at IMDb
- Rashid Masharawi, Buthina Canaan Khoury, Nahed Awwad, Hazim Bitar, Annemarie Jacir and Ahmad Habash by Kamran Rastegar, Bidoun, Fall 2006
Further reading
- Gertz, Nurith; Khleifi, George (2008). "Chapter 4: Without place, Without time: The films of Rashid Masharawi". Palestinian Cinema: Landscape, Trauma, and Memory. Indiana University Press. pp. 101–118. ISBN 0-253-22007-6.
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