‘The Sea’ Review: Israel’s Oscar Entry Is a Moving Father-Son Tale in the Vein of ‘Bicycle Thieves’

Israel’s mostly Arabic-language international feature submission “The Sea” offers a deceptively simple premise: a headstrong 12-year-old boy from a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank illegally enters Israel on his own to see the sea. Without being judgmental, director-writer Shai Carmeli Pollak uses this foundation to expose painful realities of the occupation, as well […]