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The film was written and directed by Scandar Copti (a Palestinian) and Yaron Shani (an Israeli Jew ), Ajami explores five different stories set in an actual impoverished Christian and Muslim Arab neighborhood of the Tel Aviv - Jaffa metropolis, called Ajami.
"Ajami," one of this year's Oscar nominees for best foreign film, is the latest and one of the most harrowing films set along the religious divides in Israel. It was co-written and co-directed by an Israeli and a Palestinian, and set in Jaffa, technically a part of Tel Aviv, which has high crime and unemployment rates.
Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, and winner of many international film prizes, AJAMI is a bold new crime drama set on the margins of an Arab ghetto in the Israeli city of Jaffa that.
Feb 3, 2010 · This multi-character drama balances intimate portrayals and broad political implications to paint a bracing and moving portrait of the Middle East conflict. Ajami is not pretty and it's not heart...
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- Shahir Kabaha
- Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
- Drama
Feb 2, 2010 · The Israeli movie “Ajami,” one of the five Oscar nominees for best foreign-language film, takes its name from a rough neighborhood in Jaffa, a mostly Arab city just south of Tel Aviv.
- Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
Jan 29, 2010 · A child is murdered, creating pandemonium. Dialogue in Hebrew-flecked Jaffa Arabic comes straight off the streets. The result is a film that feels at times like journalism. Mr. Shani, 37, said ...
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Feb 3, 2010 · Ajami is an area of Tel Aviv in Israel where Arabs, Palestinians, Jews and Christians live together in a tense atmosphere. Omar, an Israeli Arab, struggles to save his family from a gang of extortionists.
