Origin: Israel | Fiction | Director: Adi Adwan | 82 minutes

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Arabani

Director: Adi Adwan Israel 2013 Fiction 82 minutes
Arabic Hebrew

Arabani isn't just the auspicious debut feature of a new talent in writer-
director Adi Adwan-it's also the first feature film ever made by an
Israeli Druze filmmaker. Newly divorced from his Jewish wife, Yosef (Eyad
Sheety) returns to his hometown, the Druze village of Sumaka. While
eventually mending bridges with his mother (Zuhaira Sabbagh), the community
as a whole gives a cold-shoulder response to Yosef and his mixed-race
teenaged children, daughter Smadar (Daniella Nidam) and adolescent son Eli
(Tom Kelrich), who face ostracism, misunderstanding, and intimidation.
Deploying an understated, nuanced style, Adwan slowly, confidently unspools
his story, detailing the slow erosion of social and emotional barriers and
budding of young romance. Adwan's intimate knowledge of his people's way of
life is evident in every precise domestic detail which, in an accumulation
of small moments, builds to make a film of surprising emotional impact.

Themes: Narrative, Family, Drama

Trailer: https://youtu.be/oyUplYm8I8g

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