Marjolein Busstra’s House of Hope, a film about a Palestinian couple teaching young students non-violent resistance in an elementary school in the occupied West Bank, picked up the best international feature documentary prize at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival on Friday night.
The top jury prize win at the festival means Busstra’s film, a Palestine-Netherlands co-production that world premiered at IDFA in Amsterdam, will qualify for consideration in the best documentary feature category at the Academy Awards.