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3 February 2010 (USA)
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“Ajami” Tops at Thessaloniki
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Fish Tank & Woman Without Piano Triumph At AFI Festival
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Fish Tank & Woman Without Piano Triumph At AFI Festival
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Fouad Habash | ... | Nasri |
| Nisrine Rihan | ... | Ilham |
| Elias Saba | ... | Shata |
| Youssef Sahwani | ... | Abu-Lias |
| Abu George Shibli | ... | Sido |
| Ibrahim Frege | ... | Malek |
| Scandar Copti | ... | Binj |
| Shahir Kabaha | ... | Omar |
| Hilal Kabob | ... | Anan |
| Ranin Karim | ... | Hadir |
| Eran Naim | ... | Dando |
| Sigal Harel | ... | Dando's sister |
| Tamar Yerushalmi | ... | Dando's mother |
| Moshe Yerushalmi | ... | Dando's father |
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| Ghassan Ashkar | ||
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Russoun (Israel: Hebrew title) (working title)
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Israel:120 min
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Israel's official submission to 82nd Academy Award's Foreign Language in 2010.
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I just saw this at the London Film Festival. Oh, what a treat.
Taking on the fashionable use of related threads and retelling the same narrative from a different angle, this film delivers a bullet tough view of street life and crime around Jaffa.
The audience is sucked into the maelstrom so quickly, that we forget the media view of the great enmity and realise that there are, of course, many smaller ones. While much eventually revolves around Israeli governance, this is not a blame game but a Shakespearean tragedy.
Unlike City of God, the casual viewer is not always given heavy clues about a characters background - and which side of the racial / religious divide they are on. And subtle differences can end up being of major (often fatal) importance. Beware.
This is not a film destined for multiplexes. Its a man's world where women are a distraction. There is no victory for political correctness. But more to the point, we are not given any particular reason to believe that Things Will Get Better.