Ajami (2009)
Country: GER/ISR
Technical: col 120m
Director: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
Cast: Fouad Habash, Shahir Kabaha, Scandar Copti, Ibrahim Frege
Synopsis:
Assorted characters on either side of the border between Tel Aviv and Jaffa are implicated in a young Palestinian's desperate search for money to pay damages to a gangster following a shooting.
Review:
Absorbing drama which recalls La Haine, Crash and other films at times, but in some ways goes further than any of them in depicting the banality of personal tragedy in a society such as this. Through realist techniques a long way from the surface sheen of City of God or La Haine, the directors forever keep one's eyes firmly fixed on the characters, all fully inhabited by the cast. Cruelly ironic, and shifting perspective as well as chronology without warning, the film stands as an epitome of the political situation in the Occupied Territories.
Country: GER/ISR
Technical: col 120m
Director: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
Cast: Fouad Habash, Shahir Kabaha, Scandar Copti, Ibrahim Frege
Synopsis:
Assorted characters on either side of the border between Tel Aviv and Jaffa are implicated in a young Palestinian's desperate search for money to pay damages to a gangster following a shooting.
Review:
Absorbing drama which recalls La Haine, Crash and other films at times, but in some ways goes further than any of them in depicting the banality of personal tragedy in a society such as this. Through realist techniques a long way from the surface sheen of City of God or La Haine, the directors forever keep one's eyes firmly fixed on the characters, all fully inhabited by the cast. Cruelly ironic, and shifting perspective as well as chronology without warning, the film stands as an epitome of the political situation in the Occupied Territories.
Country: GER/ISR
Technical: col 120m
Director: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
Cast: Fouad Habash, Shahir Kabaha, Scandar Copti, Ibrahim Frege
Synopsis:
Assorted characters on either side of the border between Tel Aviv and Jaffa are implicated in a young Palestinian's desperate search for money to pay damages to a gangster following a shooting.
Review:
Absorbing drama which recalls La Haine, Crash and other films at times, but in some ways goes further than any of them in depicting the banality of personal tragedy in a society such as this. Through realist techniques a long way from the surface sheen of City of God or La Haine, the directors forever keep one's eyes firmly fixed on the characters, all fully inhabited by the cast. Cruelly ironic, and shifting perspective as well as chronology without warning, the film stands as an epitome of the political situation in the Occupied Territories.