2017
Palestine – France – Germany – Colombia – Norway – Qatar - UAE
96min - DCP - 1.85 - 5.1 - Color
Original language: Arabic
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Cast
Mohammad Bakri
Saleh Bakri
Credits
Director: Annemarie Jacir
Script: Annemarie Jacir
Image: Antoine Heberle
Editor: Jacques Comets
Music supervisor: Koo Abu Ali
Producer: Ossama Bawardi (Philistine Films)
Coproducers: JBA production, Cactus World Films, Metafora Productions, Klinkerfilm, Ciudad Lunar, Ape&Bjørn, Snow Globe Film, Schortcut Films
Festivals & Awards
AWARDS
FICC/IFFS Prize, Youth Jury Environment Prize, and ISPEC Cinema Award
Locarno Film Festival 2017
Special mention from the jury
BFI London Film Festival 2017
Special Jury Award
MedFilm Festival in Rome 2017
Best Muhr Fiction Feature
Best Actors Mohammad Bakri & Saleh Bakri
Dubai International Film Festival 2017
Golden Astor for Best Feature Film in the International Competition
Best Actor for Mohamad Bakri
Best Feature Film Award Argentine Film Critics Association
Best Feature Film SIGNIS Award
Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata 2017
Best Film
Kerala Intl Film Festival India 2017
Audience Choice Award
Florence Middle East Festival 2018
Best Film
Prishtina International Film Festival 2018
Best Film
Casablanca Film Festival 2018
Jury Prize and Best Actor for both Mohamad Bakri and Saleh Bakri
Arab Film Festival of Oran 2018
FESTIVALS 2017
Locarno Film Festival – Official Competition
TIFF Toronto Intl FF – Contemporary World Cinema
CPH PIX
61st BFI London Film Festival
Filmfest Hamburg
Mumbai Film Festival
Busan Intl Film Festival
Opening Film for the Days of Cinema Film Festival in Ramallah
58th Thessaloniki International Film Festival
AFI FEST in Los Angeles
Films From the South Oslo – Official Competition
28th Ljubljana International Film Festival
Medfilm Festival in Rome – Official Competition
23rd Kolkata International Film Festival
Tallin Black Nights Film Festival
48th International Film Festival of India, Goa
Kaunas International Film Festival
Dubai International Film Festival - Muhr Competition
International Film Festival of Kerala – Official Competition
17ème Festival Cinéma Méditerranéen de Bruxelles – Official Competition
Ankara festival on wheels
Mar del Plata Intl Film Festival – Official Competition
FESTIVALS 2018
Palm Springs FF USA
Pune International Film Festival, India
Ramdam festival, Belgium
International Film Festival Rotterdam
41st Göteborg Film Festival
41st Portland International Film Festival
21° Punta del Este International Film Festival
Bengaluru International Film Festival
Miami Film Festival
WOW Wales One World Film Festival, UK
Boston Palestine Film Festival
Istanbul International Film Festival
Middle East Now Festival in Florence, Italy
San Francisco International Film Festival
Arabisches Filmfestival Berlin
Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival
MOOOV – films facing the world, Belgium
Washington, DC International Film Festival
Palestine Film Days in Aarhus, Denmark
Cyprus Film Days
Chicago Palestine Film Festival – Opening Film
CROSSING EUROPE Film Festival Linz, Austria
Houston Palestine Film Festival at Museum of Fine Arts
Seattle International FF
Arab Film Festival in Detroit
Arab Film Festival in Korea
Honolulu Museum of Art – Special Screening
Karlovy Vary Intl FF
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Odessa Intl film Festival
Prishtina International Film Festival
Arab Women's Showcase in LA
Camillo Kino/Filmclub
Summer Marathon Film Festival Cyprus
Melbourne Intl FF
Kranjska Gora Film Festival
Mostra Mundo Árabe de Cinema in São Paulo
Kaunas International Film Festival
CoolConnections in Moscow
DFI Cinematheque
Coolidge Corner Theatre
Helsinki IFF
Toronto Palestine Film Fesitval
ANA Contemporary Arab Cinema Film Festival
Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival in Pittsburgh
San Diego Arab Film Festival
Twin Cities Arab Film Festival (TCAFF)
Washington DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival
Malmö Arab Film Festival
Focus on Annemarie Jacir at BAM Brooklyn Academy of Music
Milwaukee Film Festival
Monde Arabe de Montréal
8th Malatya International Film Festival
WAJIB
a film by :Annemarie Jacir
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.
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