Paradise Now Wins Golden Globe

Paradise Now” won the award for the Best Foreign Language Film category in the 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards, that were held on Monday.

The film was directed by Palestinian Hany Abu-Assad from a screenplay he cowrote with Bero Beyer, the film’s Dutch producer, both of whom ascended to the podium to collect the award.

Paradise Now chronicles the 48 hours before two best friends in Nablus are sent on a suicide mission to Israel. The New York Times said it