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WAJIB (INVITACIÓN DE BODA (WAJIB))
DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, SPAIN
Release date : Apr 27, 2018
 
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Completed - ARABIC - Drama - 96 minutes

Log Line

Abu Shadi is a divorced 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. The tense details of their relationship will arise.

Year of production : 2017

Director(s) : Annemarie JACIR
Writer(s) : Annemarie JACIR
Cast : Mohammad BAKRI, Saleh BAKRI

Producer(s) : Ossama BAWARDI (Philistine Films)

Synopsis

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.

Production

Country(ies) : PALESTINE, FRANCE, GERMANY, COLOMBIA, NORWAY, QATAR, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

ARGENTINA ZETA FILMS SRL
AUSTRIA Jan 04, 2019 CINEMATOGRAPH F
BELGIUM Apr 18, 2018 MOOOV
ITALY SATINE FILM
LEBANON METROPOLIS CINE
NETHERLAND Mar 21, 2019 MOOOV FILM DIST
SPAIN Apr 27, 2018 FESTIVAL FILMS
SWITZERLAN TRIGON-FILM
UNITED KIN NEW WAVE FILMS

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Festivals and Awards

Locarno Film Festival 2017 (Premio FICC/IFFS)
Toronto - TIFF 2017 Contemporary World Cinema
BFI London FF 2017 Official Competition
Busan IFF 2017 A Window on Asian Cinema
AFI FEST 2017 World Cinema
Ventana Sur 2017 Video Library
Rotterdam IFF 2018 Voices
Karlovy Vary IFF 2018 Horizons


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