Director: Scandar Copti,
Yaron Shani
Script.: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
Cinema.: Boaz Yehonatan Yacov
Edit.: Burkhard Althoof, Doris Hepp
Sound: Kai Tebbel
Music: Rabiah Buchari
Cast: Shahir Kabaha, Ibrahim Frege, Fouad Habash, Youssef Sahwani, Ranin Karim, Eran Naim, Scandar Copti, Elias Sabah
Production: Inosan, Twenty Twenty Vision
Distribution:
Ad Vitam
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Fax: +33(0)1 46 34 75 09
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Year: 2009
35 mm, Color, 118 min, Arabic & Hebrew with French subtitles
Special Mention, Caméra d'Or, Cannes Film Festival 2009
Antigone d'or, 31st Cinemed, Montpellier 2009
Ajami is the name of a Jewish area in Jaffa where Jewish, Muslim and Christian communities live together.
Arab Israeli Omar and his whole family are in danger after his uncle fired at another family’s important member. How to make up for such a drama? Young Palestinian refugee Malek must earn his life to look after his ill mother, he must work in Israel. Jewish policeman Dando is obsessed by the idea of avenging his murdered brother.
Destinies meet in the heart of a city where chaos sets in. “We wanted to convey something we all share: the tragic ambivalence of human reality. Ajami is a very cosmopolitan place: all kinds of cultures, nationalities and conflicting human perspectives can be found. None of the actors ever learnt acting, or played in a film before. Many come from difficult backgrounds where violence and crime are part of their daily life.” Y. Shani and S. Capti.
Destinies meet in the heart of a city where chaos sets in. “We wanted to convey something we all share: the tragic ambivalence of human reality. Ajami is a very cosmopolitan place: all kinds of cultures, nationalities and conflicting human perspectives can be found. None of the actors ever learnt acting, or played in a film before. Many come from difficult backgrounds where violence and crime are part of their daily life.” Y. Shani and S. Capti.
A thriller about the war of clans within the complex Israeli society!
