Middle East Film Festival 2019 (Golden Village)
Wajib
Rating
NC16 Some Coarse Language
Language
Arabic with English subtitles
Cast
Mohammad Bakri, Saleh Bakri, Tarik Kopty
Synopsis
Abu Shadi is a divorced father and a school teacher living in Nazareth whose daughter is getting married. 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 spends the day together, the tense details of their relationship come to a head, challenging their fragile and very different lives. Winner of the Special Prize for Best Film at the Locarno International Film Festival 2017, and is Palestine’s official submission to the 2018 Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film.