WAJIB

By Annemarie JACIR

PYRAMIDE INTERNATIONAL - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2017

Abu Shadi is a divorced school teacher in his mid-sixties living in Nazareth. After his daughter’s wedding in one month, he will be living alone. Shadi, his architect son, arrives from Rome after years abroad. The tense details of their relationship will arise.

Festivals
& Awards

Locarno Film Festival 2017
Premio FICC/IFFS
Toronto - TIFF 2017
Contemporary World Cinema
BFI London FF 2017
Official Competition
Busan IFF 2017
A Window on Asian Cinema
AFI FEST 2017
World Cinema
Ventana Sur 2017
Video Library
Rotterdam IFF 2018
Voices
Karlovy Vary IFF 2018
Horizons
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • PALESTINE, FRANCE, GERMANY, COLOMBIA, NORWAY, QATAR, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
    • Languages
    • ARABIC
    • Budget
    • N/A
    • Duration
    • 96 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Annemarie JACIR
    • Writer(s)
    • Annemarie JACIR
    • Producer(s)
    • Ossama BAWARDI (Philistine Films)
    • Synopsis
    • Abu Shadi is a divorced father and a school teacher in his mid-sixties living in Nazareth. After his daughter’s wedding in one month he will be living alone. Shadi, his architect son, arrives from Rome after years abroad to help his father in hand delivering the wedding invitations to each guest as per local Palestinian custom. As the estranged pair spend the day together, the tense details of their relationship come to a head challenging their fragile and very different lives.