JAFFA

Fear and compassion, rage and love live side-by-side with Israeli Jews and Arabs in the jumbled streets of the beautiful seaside city of Jaffa, home of Reuven's (Moni Moshonov) small family-run garage. Mali (Dana Ivgy), his dutiful daughter, is the garage's receptionist, working alongside her family and the Palestinian mechanic Toufik, a loyal and hard worker. No one suspects that Mali is pregnant with Toufik's child and that they plan to marry. When an explosive argument alters their lives forever, the raw power of this drama reveals larger truths about Israeli-Palestinian relations as well as the possibility and hope for healing. Official Selection, 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

DIR/SCR Keren Yedaya; PROD Emmanuel Agneray, Jérôme Bleitrach, Benny Drechsel, Marek Rozenbaum, Karsten Stöter. Germany/Israel/France, 2009, color, 106 min. In Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles. NOT RATED

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