Sun Jul 26, 7:30 pm @ Martha's Vineyard Film Center
$15 General Admission, $12 Member, $10 child (age 14 or younger)
Doors open for admissions 30 minutes prior to screening. Buy tickets at The Film Center or online now
Israel’s official entry to the Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film and nominated for a record 13 Israeli Academy Awards (Ophir), notably winning Best Film and Best Actor, The Sea is a quietly majestic ode to the best of the human spirit. At once tender, wryly comic, and deeply profound, it tells the story of Khaled, a 12-year-old boy from a Palestinian village, who is granted the rare chance to see the sea for the first time on a school trip. But when his group reaches a military checkpoint, the soldiers declare his permit invalid and send him home, leaving him behind as his classmates continue onward.
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“A moving father-son tale in the vein of ‘Bicycle Thieves’ (that) is sensitively attuned to the painful realities of the West Bank occupation.” – Alissa Simon, Variety
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“Had he bothered to watch it, Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar would have seen that… “The Sea” is a gentle, small, understated film (and) Mohammed Ghazawi, who plays the young hero, is fully deserving of the Best Actor Ophir Award he received.” – Nirit Handerman, Haaretz – November 18th 2025
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“A drama about a Palestinian boy who sneaks into Israel won the top prize at Israel’s version of the Oscars. The country’s culture minister… says it will defund (the) film awards.” – The New York Times – September 17th 2025
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