the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Zeina Durra has a Bosnian–Palestinian mother and Jordanian–Lebanese father and this heritage made her comfortable setting her film in an Arab country.

While it may not be the perfect animated movie (what is?), “The Prince of Egypt” is about as good as an hour and 40 minute encapsulation of the Passover story can conceivably get. It tells the ...