Movie Description:
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 marginsof an Arab ghetto in the Israeli city of Jaffa. Teeming with Palestinian illegal immigrants, Israeli Arabs, Christians and Jews, AJAMI is acloistered urban neighborhood as treacherous and potentially deadly as the front line of Gaza. When a Bedouin extortionist is gunned down in selfdefense, a teenager is mistakenly killedin retribution, and an entire Arab family faces extinction. Under the same roof, ayoung Palestinian risks his lifeand freedom to pay for treatment that would save his dying mother. Out on the streets, a Jewish cop preys on the localdrug trade by night while searching forhis missing brother by day. Enemy, neighbor, or both, everyon in AJAMI runsthe same risk of death, arrest and heartbreak. Working with a cast of non-actors in the real streets, back alleys,nightclubs and rooftopsof AJAMI itself,the co-directors have crafted a stunningfilm that deftly meshes characters andconflicts with unsentimental compassion,uncompromising realism,and harrowing violence.
