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Wajib, dir. Annemarie Jacir, Palestine / France / Germany / Columbia / Norway 2017, 96 min.
Abu Shadi (Mohammad Bakri) is a divorced father and a school teacher in his mid-60s living in Nazareth. He is separated from his wife who lives in the US, so after his daughter’s wedding in one month he will be living alone.
Shadi (played by Mohammad Bakri’s real-life son Saleh Bakri), his architect son, arrives from Rome after years abroad to help his father in hand-delivering the wedding invitations to each guest, as is the local Palestinian custom.
As the estranged pair spend the day together travelling all over the city visiting relatives, friends and people Abu Shadi is obligated to invite, the details of their relationship come to a head, challenging the preconceptions of their very different lives.
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