Ajami

Release Date: February 3rd, 2010
Director: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
Writer: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
Starring: Shahir Kabaha, Ibrahim Frege, Fouad Habash, Youssef Sahwani, Ranin Karim, Eran Naim, Scandar Copti
Studio: Kino International
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 2 hours

Two film directors belonging to different nations - Yaron Shani (Israel) and Scandar Copti (Palestine) – have created cross-cultural drama which was submitted to this year’s Oscars for Best Foreign Film and has already won ten awards at eight film festivals, including the London, Cannes, Thessaloniki and Jerusalem film festivals.
This film is set in Jaffa’s mixed Ajami neighborhood, which is a real melting pot of Christians, Jews and even Muslims. An Israeli girl Hadir (Ranin Karim) and her rich Palestinian boyfriend Omar (Shahir Kabaha) dream of common life together; 13-year-old Nasri (Fouad Habash) and his older brother fear for their life after their uncle foolishly inflicted injury a local criminal; a young refugee from Palestine Malek (Ibrahim Frege) illegally works in Israel to earn money for his mother’s surgery; and a Jewish cop Dando is obsessed with revenge on his brother’s murderers.
The film is divided into parts, in order to help viewers follow the sequence of events as the plot covers so much tense and confusion in such an impartial way. An amazingly authentic film gives razorsharp insights in the lives of different communities. There's no denying that rarely has the nature of the Middle East been so accurately depicted.

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