Ajami

Ajami

120 mins | Drama, Crime | Sept. 17, 2009

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. He also courts a beautiful Christian girl: Hadir. Malek, an illegal Palestinian worker, tries to collect enough money to pay for his mother's operation. Dando, an Israeli cop, does his utmost to find his missing brother who may have been killed by Palestinians.

Ajami

120 mins | Drama, Crime | Sept. 17, 2009

Ajami
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. He also courts a beautiful Christian girl: Hadir. Malek, an illegal Palestinian worker, tries to collect enough money to pay for his mother's operation. Dando, an Israeli cop, does his utmost to find his missing brother who may have been killed by Palestinians.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers ARTE, ZDF, Inosan, Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion GmbH
Original title Ajami
Directors Yaron Shani, Scandar Copti
Writers Yaron Shani, Scandar Copti

Cast

Fouad Habash

as Nasri

Nisrine Rihan

as Ilham

Elias Saba

as Shata

Youssef Sahwani

as Abu-Lias

Ibrahim Frege

as Malek

Scandar Copti

as Binj

Shahir Kabaha

as Omar

Hilal Kabob

as Anan

Ranin Karim

as Hadir

Eran Naim

as Dando Ben David

Sigal Harel

as Dando's sister

Tamar Yerushalmi

as Dando's mother

Moshe Yerushalmi

as Dando's father