Film Review: Ajami

Peter Bradshaw, Guardian Unlimited: Film
Thu, 06/17/2010 - 3:00pm

The tensions between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East are interestingly exposed in this multi-linear Israeli film, set in a mixed neighbourhood in Jaffa, writes Peter BradshawThis interesting Israeli film by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani could be seen as a Middle-Eastern Short Cuts. It is a tense mosaic-anthology of embattled lives in the district of Ajami in Jaffa, Israel – a neighbourhood known for having Jewish and Arab populations living in close proximity.

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