WAJIB
synopsis
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.
original title: | Wajib |
country: | Palestine, France, Germany, Colombia, Norway, Denmark, Qatar, United Arab Emirates |
sales agent: | Pyramide International |
year: | 2017 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Annemarie Jacir |
film run: | 96' |
release date: | FR 14/02/2018, IT 19/04/2018, ES 27/04/2018 |
screenplay: | Annemarie Jacir |
cast: | Saleh Bakri, Mohammad Bakri, Maria Zreik |
cinematography by: | Antoine Héberlé |
film editing: | Jacques Comets |
art director: | Nael Kanj |
costumes designer: | Hamada Atallah |
producer: | Ossama Bawardi |
co-producer: | Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin, Cristina Gallego, Katrin Pors, Ruben Thorkildsen |
production: | JBA Production, Klinkerfilm, Ape&Bjørn AS, Snowglobe, Metafora Productions (QA), Ciudad Lunar (CO), Schortcut Films (AE) |
distributor: | Pyramide Distribution, Satine Film, Festival Films |