200 Meters

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200 Meters

2022

1h 36m

Drama

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Mustafa, a Palestinian construction worker, lives 200 meters away from his wife Salwa and their children in villages separated by the Israeli border wall. Though his family are all Israeli citizens, Mustafa refuses to obtain a permit to live with them. Unwilling to succumb to what he believes are unjust laws, he instead uses his work permit to visit daily. However, one day he gets a call every parent dreads: his son has been injured and brought to the hospital. Rushing to cross the Israeli checkpoint, Mustafa is denied on a technicality. Stopping at nothing to reach his child, a 200 meter distance becomes a 200 kilometer odyssey, as the increasingly desperate Mustafa attempts to smuggle himself to the other side of the wall. Featuring a magnetic central performance by Ali Suliman, Ameen Nayfeh's debut feature film expertly casts "one man's story as a reflection of a collective experience" (Variety) while maintaining the tender family drama at its core.

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Critics Consensus

Personal and poignant, 200 Meters is a powerfully acted drama that suggests a promising future for first-time feature filmmaker Ameen Nayfeh.

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Noel Murray

Los Angeles Times

Dec 9, 2022

Nayfeh scores some sharp political points in “200 Meters,” taking viewers through Mustafa’s increasingly nightmarish odyssey...

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Wendy Ide

Screen International

Oct 9, 2020

A superb central performance from Ali Suliman as Mustafa is at the heart of this impressive first feature, which persausively captures the grinding indignities of day to day Palestinian life.

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Jay Weissberg

Variety

Sep 14, 2020

Debuting writer-director Ameen Nayfeh's depiction of the shameful hurdles Palestinians must overcome in their daily lives rings true even when the script falters.

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Ally Ham

Video Librarian Magazine

Oct 8, 2024

Mustafa's journey in an unoccupied country would only have involved a simple drive–and, in a perfect world, would never have needed to be told. As it is, however, Ameen Nayfeh’s 200 Meters is a necessary, uncontrived, and moving Palestinian film drama.

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Rory Doherty

InSession Film

Jun 13, 2024

3/5

For a first feature, Nayfeh has made a film that is both entertaining and impactful, with a focus that is both broad and personal.

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Joanne Laurier

World Socialist Web Site

Jan 15, 2023

4/4

200 Meters is the first (and an impressive) feature written and directed by Palestinian-Jordanian Ameen Nayfeh (born 1988). The fiction film ... depicts the relentless cruelty of the Israeli government’s policies toward the Palestinians

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Jan 9, 2022

A pragmatic drama film done in humoristic and sometimes naïve way.no need to get to know the political part of it in order to understand how difficult being occupied is.excellent acting by Ali Suliman that covers the rest of the cast. Fatherhood or parenthood has no boundaries.

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May 11, 2021

One of the best movies i have seen in my life

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Synopsis

Mustafa, a Palestinian construction worker, lives 200 meters away from his wife Salwa and their children in villages separated by the Israeli border wall. Though his family are all Israeli citizens, Mustafa refuses to obtain a permit to live with them. Unwilling to succumb to what he believes are unjust laws, he instead uses his work permit to visit daily. However, one day he gets a call every parent dreads: his son has been injured and brought to the hospital. Rushing to cross the Israeli checkpoint, Mustafa is denied on a technicality. Stopping at nothing to reach his child, a 200 meter distance becomes a 200 kilometer odyssey, as the increasingly desperate Mustafa attempts to smuggle himself to the other side of the wall. Featuring a magnetic central performance by Ali Suliman, Ameen Nayfeh's debut feature film expertly casts "one man's story as a reflection of a collective experience" (Variety) while maintaining the tender family drama at its core.

Director: Ameen Nayfeh
Producer: May Odeh
Screenwriter: Ameen Nayfeh
Distributor: Film Movement
Production Co: Film i Skåne, Odeh Films, MeMo Films
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Arabic
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 18, 2022, Limited
Runtime: 1h 36m

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