Mayor

DVD Features

Commentary by Director David Osit
Deleted Scenes

Discs: 1

• Highest Rating
  "The best new film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a dark comedy about Ramallah’s Mayor... offers a striking new perspective on that struggle, with a personal on-the-ground quality matched by grand tonal ambitions that makes it the best of its subgenre. "
  Eric Kohn, Indiewire
• Highest Rating
  "Impressive. Engrossing. MAYOR is a study in politics both micro and macro, showing what happens when the two come fatefully crashing together."
  Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter
• Highest Rating
  "Astonishing. Gripping and surprisingly witty... Osit brings a respectful approach that admirably never registers as observations of a patronizing Westerner."
  Tomris Laffly, Variety
• Highest Rating
  "CRITIC'S PICK. Surprisingly funny. Hadid comes across as a cleareyed, forthright leader. But Mayor also stands out because Osit has thought it through in cinematic terms."
  Ben Kenigsberg, The New York Times
• Highest Rating
  "MAYOR is an astounding and enthralling film... filled with a delicate blend of dark humour and unflinching honesty."
  Courtney Small, Cinema Axis
• Highest Rating
  "... one of my favorites of the year, hands-down — was David Osit’s hilarious and moving documentary Mayor."
  Alissa Wilkinson, Vox
• Highest Rating
  "Subtly electrifying... deeply affecting. A movie full of vitalising, delicate observations."
  Robert Greene, Sight & Sound
• Highest Rating
  "Brilliant. Like a lost season of "Veep"... amuses and devastates in equal measure."
  Stephen Saito, Moveable Fest
• Highest Rating
  "Offers more absurd moments than Samuel Beckett could have ever worked up."
  Arash Azizi, Universal Cinema
• Highest Rating
  "MAYOR is essential viewing about the lines between small and grand acts of resistance."
  B.P. Flanagan, Seventh Row
• Highest Rating
  "I loved this film. I loved everything about it from its craft, to its subject to all the thematic threads. I love that this is a film that works on many different levels, that it entertains like a drama and makes you think. This is a magnificent film."
  Steve Kopian, Unseen Films
• Highest Rating
  "One of the Top 20 films of 2020. ...thrilling and perceptive. Essential viewing...."
  Eric Kohn, Indiewire
• Highest Rating
  "Outstanding...Made with irony, subtlety, and style, “Mayor” is a bittersweet lesson in civic and international politics."
  Peter Keough, The Boston Globe
• Highest Rating
  "Far from a message movie, David Osit’s sensitive documentary is a captivating, enlightening, and ultimately terrifying look at how to survive day by day when the fight for liberation can seem everlasting."
  Jordan Raup, The Film Stage
• Highest Rating
  "“Mayor” proves a unique, involving and edifying experience."
  Gary Goldstein, The Los Angeles Times
• Highest Rating
  "...the film is filled with a surprising amount of good humor.... At times, Mayor almost feels like a very dark version of Parks and Recreation."
  Dan Schindel, Hyperalleric
• Highest Rating
  "... a fascinating portrait of what city politics look like under extreme conditions. "
  Chris Barsanti, The Playlist
• Highest Rating
  "... the director contrasts sometimes dryly funny day-to-day bureaucratic machinations with extraordinary events to give viewers a weighty sense of the existential. "
  Kevin Ritchie, NOW Toronto
• Highest Rating
  "Easily one of the best documentaries of the year, Mayor straddles political commentary, verite reportage, poetry and absurdism with considerable aplomb. "
  Dennis Harvey, 48hills
• Highest Rating
  "Mayor proves to be a remarkable achievement. Shown through the eyes of Ramallah's leader, preconceived notions about the region are undone. It's a powerful portrait of a people left in its place."
  Chase Hutchinson, The Stranger
• Highest Rating
  "One of the Best Films of 2020"
  Christopher Reed, Hammer to Nail
• Highest Rating
  "One of the 25 Best Documentaries of 2020. Osit elegantly assembles a portrait of leadership—confident, caring and above all committed to the people—that feels genuinely alien to the American experience today."
  Dom Sinacola, Paste Magazine