The Arabic-language Israeli film “Sand Storm” won the top prize for a foreign film at the Sundance Film Festival.
The film took the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize on Jan. 30. Written and directed by an Israeli Jew, Elite Zexer, “Sand Storm” was making its debut at the annual festival in Utah.
In the drama, a Bedouin woman must welcome her husband’s second wife and deal with her modern daughter.
“Weiner,” a film about the mayoral campaign of Anthony Weiner, the disgraced New York Jewish congressman and the landscape of today’s politics, won the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize. — jta