Ajami

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Film Information:
Year:

2009

Ajami
Países:

  
Directores:

Yaron ShaniScandar Copti

Color:

Color
Format:

35 mm
Duration:

120 min

Cast:

  • INTÉRPRETES: Fouad Habash, Nisrine Rihan, Elias Saba, Youssef Sahwani, Abu George Shibli

Production:

  • GUIÓN: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shami
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Boaz Yehonatan Yaacov
  • MONTAJE: Scandar Copti,
  • Yaron Shami
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Moshe Danon, Thanassis Karathanos

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Synopsis

It wouldn’t be improper to say that Ajami is about a place, and that it’s actually the place the one creating the stories that move along the film in an almost labyrinthine way, as if they would reproduce the way streets intertwine there. Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani –that two-headed filmmaker, which here happens to be Arab and Israeli– tried to make Ajami a place where multiple stories could expand, where Jews, Muslims, and Christians would coexist. But there were multiple meanings and, specially, multiple points of view to be condensed there. Mad Jewish policemen, drug dealers, and illegal Palestinians are only some of the characters Ajami intersects with extraordinary fluency and narrative force. Moving away from the idea of victims and victimizers, but also from a supposed communion that wishes for a pacifism that is hard to fulfill in the real world, Ajami shows –like Waltz with Bashir, like Lebanon– that the Middle East conflict is no longer a subject, but a way to come up with new forms of expressing the most difficult thing of all: the contemporary world.

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