''A Gaza Weekend'' is a 2022 British-Palestinian

comedy film The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the o ...

co-written and directed by Basil Khalil.Allan Hunter
"‘A Gaza Weekend’: Toronto Review"
''

Screen Daily ''Screen International'' is a British film magazine covering the international film business. It is published by Media Business Insight, a British B2B media company which also owned '' Broadcast''. The magazine is primarily aimed at those involv ...

'', 10 September 2022. It follows an English man named Michael (

Stephen Mangan Stephen James Mangan (born 16 May 1968) is a British actor, comedian, presenter and writer. He has played Guy Secretan in '' Green Wing'', Dan Moody in '' I'm Alan Partridge'', Seán Lincoln in ''Episodes'', Bigwig in ''Watership Down'', Postma ...

) and his Israeli wife Keren (Mouna Hawa) as they try to take refuge in

Gaza Gaza may refer to: Places Palestine * Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea ** Gaza City, a city in the Gaza Strip ** Gaza Governorate, a governorate in the Gaza Strip Mandatory Palestine * Gaza Sub ...

, whichdue to Israel's blockade of the regionhas ironically become the safest place to be after a virus is accidentally released from an Israeli laboratory. Although the film revolves around a viral pandemic, it began production long before the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...

. The film premiered on 10 September 2022 at the

Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the most prestigious and largest publicly attended film festivals in the world. Founded in 1976, the festival takes place every year in early September. The organi ...

, where it won the

FIPRESCI Prize The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI, short for ''Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique'') is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the worl ...

.Christian Zilko
"‘The Fabelmans’ Wins TIFF 2022 People’s Choice Award"
'' IndieWire'', 18 September 2022.

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* 2022 films 2022 comedy films British comedy films British Film Institute films Palestinian comedy films 2020s British films Films set in the Gaza Strip Film4 Productions films {{2020s-UK-film-stub