Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to cross the separation wall to visit his secret love Nadia. But occupied Palestine knows neither simple love nor clear-cut war. On the other side of the wall, the sensitive young baker Omar becomes a freedom fghter who must face painful choices about life and manhood. When Omar is captured after a deadly act of resistance, he falls into a cat-and-mouse game with the military police. Suspicion and betrayal jeapordise his longtime trust with accomplices and childhood friends Amjad and Tarek, Nadia’s militant brother. Omar’s feelings quickly become as torn apart as the Palestinian landscape. But it’s soon evident that everything he does is for his love of Nadia.
Abu-Assad had an international hit with the flm RANA’S WEDDING which was selected for the Cannes Critics Week and went on to win prizes at Montpellier, Marrakech, Bastia and Cologne. His much-debated film PARADISE NOW won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and was also nominated for the Academy Award in the same category. In 2013 Abu-Assad received his second Academy Award nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category for OMAR. With a primarily unknown yet superb cast OMAR is a story of love and betrayal set against the backdrop of one of the most distressing and current conflicts of our time.
