Available to rent for $10
Dec 4 - Jan 8
Directed by David Osit
2020, USA/United Kingdom, 89 min
Arabic & English with English subtitles
This title is available to rent via Cinematheque at Home for $10. This is not only an opportunity for our patrons to see new cinema, but is an important way that they can continue to support independent film during this pandemic with 50% of all sales supporting our theatre.
Mayor is a real-life political saga following Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah, during his second term in office. His immediate goals: repave the sidewalks, attract more tourism, and plan the city’s Christmas celebrations. His ultimate mission: to end the occupation of Palestine. Rich with detailed observation and a surprising amount of humor, Mayor offers a portrait of dignity amidst the madness and absurdity of endless occupation while posing a question: how do you run a city when you don’t have a country?
Gimme Some Truth Presents is sponsored by Telefilm Canada & IATSE 856 Manitoba.
Reviews
[Director] Osit brings a respectful approach that admirably never registers as observations of a patronizing Westerner. On the contrary, the filmmaker does well in portraying Ramallah with a sympathetically insider-y and even proud eye, unearthing astonishing specificity within the universal facets of Hadid’s vocation.
– Tomris Laffly, Variety
It might not change anyone’s mind about the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, but Mayor presents a fresh window into the challenges of leadership on the latter half of that equation... an operatic vérité drama that often dips into bureaucratic black comedy and unnerving suspense.
– Eric Kohn, Indiewire
