Rebecca Davis editorCohen Media Group has acquired all U.S. and Canada rights to writer-director Eran Kolirin’s “Let It Be Morning,” Israel’s official submission to the international film race at the 2022 Academy Awards, the company announced on Thursday.The title world premiered earlier this year in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, and went on to win nine of the 11 noms it received last month at the Ophir Awards — Israel’s Academy Award-equivalent — including best film, director, actor and actress.Based on a novel of the same name by Palestinian author Sayed Kashua, the film tells the story of Sami (Alex Bakri, of “Mars at Sunrise”), a Palestinian-born Israeli citizen who finds that the Arab village where he grew up is one day.
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