Wajib
Wajib- Director
- Annemarie Jacir
- Country
- Autonomous Territories of Palestine, France, Germany, Colombia, Norway, Denmark, Qatar, United Arab Emirates
- Year
- 2017
- Genre
- Fiction
- Scriptwriters
- Annemarie Jacir
- Cast
- Saleh Bakri, Mohammad Bakri, Maria Zreik
- Production
- JBA Production, Klinkerfilm, Ape&Bjørn AS, Snowglobe, Metafora Productions (QA), Ciudad Lunar (CO), Schortcut Films (AE)
Storyline
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 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.
Festivals & Academy awards and others
Festival del Film Locarno 2017
Competition
Toronto International Film Festival 2017
Contemporary World Cinema
Releases
Spain (27 of April 2018)
Call for proposals International Coproduction Funds
ACM Distribution
