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AJAMI

By Scandar COPTI, Yaron SHANI

THE MATCH FACTORY - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2009

Festivals
& Awards

Directors' Fortnight 2009

Caméra d'or - Mention spéciale

- Year of production
- 2009
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- GERMANY, ISRAEL
- Languages
- ARABIC, HEBREW
- Duration
- 120 mn
- Director(s)
- Scandar COPTI, Yaron SHANI
- Writer(s)
- Scandar COPTI, Yaron SHANI
- Cast
- Eran NAIM, Fouad HABASH, Ibrahim FREGE, Scandar COPTI, Shahir KABAHA
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-CA90-0000-E-0000-0000-W
- EIDR
- 10.5240/92BA-3C08-9914-C0C4-4FE4-3
- Producer(s)
- Mosh DANON (Inosan Productions), Thanassis KARATHANOS (Twenty Twenty Filmproduktion)
- Synopsis
- Jaffa's Ajami neighborhood is a melting pot of cultures and conflicting views among Jews, Muslims and Christians. Back and forth in time, and through the eyes of various characters, we witness how impossible the situation actually is... Sensitive 13-year-old Nasri and his older brother Omar live in fear when their entire family is in danger after their uncle foolishly wounds a prominent clan member. Naive young Palestinian refugee Malek works illegally in Israel to help finance the surgery that will save his mother’s life. Affluent Palestinian Binj dreams of a bright future with his Jewish girlfriend. Jewish policeman Dando becomes obsessed with revenge when his brother is found dead in the West Bank... The tragic fragility of human existence is experienced in the enclosed community of Ajami, where enemies must live as neighbors. No location better expresses the dramatic collision of different worlds.