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The Present tells the story of Yousef, played by Palestinian actor Saleh Bakri, who decides to go with his daughter to buy a gift for his wife on their wedding anniversary. However, the task of shopping for the gift is made almost impossible because of the challenges of life under occupation.
The film made its world premiere at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in February 2020 and won the audience award.
For Best British Short, it will be competing against
Miss Curvy by Ghada Eldemellawy,
Lizard by Akinola Davies Jr,
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Blue Fox Entertainment presents a film written and directed by Julie Delpy. Rated R (for brief language/sexual reference). Running time: 101 minutes. Opens Friday at local theaters. The French-American Delpy has renaissance abilities, as evidenced with the 2007 gem “Two Days in Paris,” for which she wrote, directed, produced, played the lead, edited and composed the soundtrack but this time around, she’s the writer-director-star of a clumsy, off-putting, uninvolving hybrid of domestic tragedy and sci-fi drama with zero payoffs and one of the most infuriating codas of any movie this century. “My Zoe” takes place in an unspecified near future, with Delpy’s Isabelle a recently divorced genetic scientist who lives in Berlin with her 6-year-old daughter Zoe (Sophia Ally) and seems to spend most of her free time bickering and arguing with her British ex-husband James (Richard Armitage), a controlling and emotionally abusive lout who shares custody of Z