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DAVID AND KAMAL

By Kikuo KAWASAKI

ELEVEN ARTS, INC. - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2011

Unlikely adventure, unimprobable friendship, can dreams survive the conflict?

- Year of production
- 2011
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- USA, JAPAN, ISRAEL
- Languages
- ENGLISH, ARABIC
- Duration
- 78 mn
- Director(s)
- Kikuo KAWASAKI
- Writer(s)
- Kikuo KAWASAKI
- Cast
- Abdalla EL AKAL, Liron LEVO, Natan RAVITCH, Tzachi COHEN, Yoni BOSENZWEIG
- Producer(s)
- Fuminori HAYASHIDA
- Synopsis
- David and Kamal" is a story about two 9-year-old boys who grow up in different surroundings.
  David, a Jewish American, comes over to Jerusalem to meet his father that he has not seen for many years. His parents are divorced, and he lives with his mother in America. Kamal, an Arab boy, lives in an Arab district in Jerusalem with his mother, sisters and very strict grandfather. He and his grandfather have to support the family because they have no father.
  The day after his arrival, David comes to the Old City and accidentally meets Kamal in the worst possible way. Kamal steals David’s porch full of old coins that David has been collecting.
  David chases after Kamal to get back his coins, but he loses sight of him. When he is trudging down an alley, a teenage Arab gang spots him and picks a quarrel with him. David starts running from them like hell but they pursue him. It is Kamal that saves David from this crisis.
  Naturally, Kamal, the thief and David, his victim confront each other at first. To make the matter worse, Kamal haggles with David in an attempt to overcharge him for his coins, because he is desperate to escape from his adverse circumstance.
  While running away from the pursuing teenage gang and helping each other, a friendship develops gradually between the two boys.
  This friendship, however, is constantly buffeted about by their mutual sense of empathy and the harsh reality that nobody can change.
  David feels a sense of “adventure” while escaping with Kamal, but he has no inkling that the whole incident has developed into a kidnapping case. Kamal, on the other hand, is astute enough to realize that it has already turned into a very serious situation.