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Israeli-Arabic film wins top prize at Sundance

The Arabic-language Israeli film, written and directed by Elite Zexer, won the top prize for a foreign film

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 Saturday night. Written and directed by a Jewish-Israeli, 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 the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize.

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