Hollywoodgate

Arab Feature Documentary Films

Hollywoodgate

Genre:
Documentary

Year:
2024

Duration:
91 minutes

Rating:
16+

Cinematography: Ibrahim Nash’at

Editing: Atanas Georgiev, Marion Tuor

Production: Talal Derki, Odessa Rae, Shane Boris

Awards: Golden Star for Best International Documentary - El Gouna Film Festival, Egypt - 2023 Best International Feature—Zurich Film Festival- Zurich, Switzerland—2023 Best International Documentary - Adelaide Film Festival, Australia - 2023 Grand Jury Prize—Full Frame Festival—North Carolina, USA -2024

Début Status: Jordanian Première

Synopsis

When the United States withdrew from its twenty-year “forever war” in Afghanistan, the Taliban retook control of the ravaged country and immediately found an American base loaded with weaponry—a portion of over $7 billion in U.S. armaments still in the country. Unprecedented and audacious, director Ibrahim Nash’at’s “Hollywoodgate” spends a year inside Afghanistan following the Taliban as they take possession of the cache America left behind—and transform from a fundamentalist militia into a heavily armed military regime.

Director’s biography

Ibrahim Nash'at is a multi-award-winning Egyptian documentary filmmaker based in Berlin, Germany. His career in journalism spans various formats, working with several international channels and online platforms such as Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera, Business Insider, AJ+, Voice of America and others. Nash’at holds a master's degree in documentary filmmaking from Met Film School. He co-edited Talal Derki's "Under the Sky of Damascus" which premiered at Panorama - Berlinale 2023 and won the Golden Alexander at the 25th Thessaloniki Doc Festival. Nash’at has directed multiple short films which were selected in several film festivals worldwide. "Hollywoodgate" is Nash’at’s first feature film. It premiered at Venice Film Festival.