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Ajami

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Ajami is a dicey, multi-culti district in Jaffa where Christians, Jews, and Muslims rub elbows and beliefs each day. In Yaron Shani (Israel) and Scandar Copti's (Palestine) excellent debut of the same name, the pair's opposite-fence POVs lend a credibility to this tale about the many strands in the area's continued tangle. The film scissors back and forth in time to lens the ethnic, full-time concerns of a select (but altogether telling) lot including a Jewish policeman on patrol for his vanished brother, a Palestinian refugee toiling for his mother's life, and brothers who fear reprisal after their uncle attacks a clan notable.

- Jason Jude Chan
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