DUBAI: The Palestinian film “Thirteen in Gaza” has won the NETPAC Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, awarded by the Network for the Promotion of Asian Pacific Cinema. The 2026 NETPAC jury was chaired by Mara Matta, alongside Richard Fung and Panagiotis Kotzathanasis, who praised director Hosam Abu Dan’s film in a statement issued on Sunday. “Against unfolding genocide, ‘Thirteen in Gaza’ by Hosam Abu Dan turns suffering into neither spectacle nor victimhood, but into riveting imag