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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has dropped its trailer for Sand Storm, the drama written and directed by Elite Zexer that is serving as Israel’s submission this year in the Oscar Foreign Language race (that shortlist is due out next week). The pic won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize this year at Sundance where it world…

Making an an accomplished debut at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize in the world cinema category, Elite Zexer’s Sand Storm was named Best Film at the Ophir Awards—Israel’s version of the Academy Awards—while picking up a number of other accolades on the festival circuit. Subsequently…

Kino Lorber has snagged North American rights to Sand Storm, the Israeli drama that won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize – Dramatic prize at Sundance in January. First-time feature writer-director Elite Zexer’s film will open September 28 at New York's Film Forum and expand during the fall. The story centers…

Sand Storm, the directorial debut of Elite Zexer, tells the story of Jalila, a woman living in an Israeli Bedouin village navigating the challenges of tradition, modernity and divided family. Faced with the indignity of hosting the wedding of her husband to a much younger new wife, as the celebrations continue she…