Sinopsis
Fiction. Abu Shadi is a divorced father and a school teacher in his mid-60s 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 stranged pair spend the day together, the tense details of their relationship come to a head challenging their fragile and very different lives.
Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir has written, directed and produced over sixteen films. Her short film Like Twenty Impossibles (2003) was the first Arab short film in history to be officially selected at Cannes Film Festival and continued to break ground when it went on to be a finalist for the Academy Awards. Her second work to debut in Cannes Un Certain Regard, the critically acclaimed Salt of This Sea (2008), garnered fourteen international awards, included the FIPRESCI Critics Award. It was the first feature film directed by a Palestinian woman and Palestine’s 2008 Oscar Entry for Foreign Language Film. When I Saw You won, among other awards, Best Asian Film at the 63rd Berlin Intl Film Festival and Best Arab Film in Abu Dhabi FF. It was also Palestine’s 2012 Oscar Entry. Notably, the film’s production was entirely Arab-financed with all Palestinian producers marking a new trend in Arab cinema. Wajib is her third Feature film.
Screening 1: Fundación Euroárabe de Granada.
March, 20th 2019: 6 pm
Screening 2: Casa Árabe in Madrid.
March, 22nd 2019: 7.30 pm
Screening 3: Casa Árabe in Córdoba.
March, 29th 2019: 8 pm
Section Contemporary Arab Directors
Year of Production: 2017
Running Time: 96’
Country: Palestine and France
Language: Arabic
Director: Annemarie Jacir
Cast: Mohammad Bakri, Saleh Bakri and Maria Zreik
Producer: Ossama Bawardi
Production Companies: Philistine Films
International Sales: Pyramide International
Main Festivals and awards: Special Best Movie Award at Locarno Film Festival, Jury Special Mention at BFI London Film Festival, Best Movie and Actor Awards at Mar de Plata Film Festival, Best Movie and Audience Awards at Amiens Film Festival
