If you missed it in March, here’s your chance to see Annemarie Jacir’s acclaimed family drama, Wajib!
Wajib (duty)
by Annemarie Jacir
2017 | Narrative Drama | 96 min
Starring the awardwinning father-son duo, Mohammad Bakri and Saleh Bakri
SPECIAL SCREENING
Co-presented with Brookline Booksmith as part of its Transnational Literature Series
Tuesday, August 28, 2018, 7:00 pm
Coolidge Corner Theatre
290 Harvard Street, Brookline MA 02446
Adults $12.75 ~ Seniors & Children $10.75
In this rousing family drama from Annemarie Jacir (When I Saw You), the only daughter of a divorced father (Mohammad Bakri) living in Nazareth is getting married. The father’s estranged son (Saleh Bakri) has returned from Rome after years abroad to honor his wajib (Arabic for duty) to help his father hand-deliver wedding invitations to each guest, as per local Palestinian custom. As father and son spend the day together, the tense details of their relationship come to a head. Wajib was Palestine’s entry for Best Foreign Language Film in last year’s Oscar race.
Since its release mid-last summer, Wajib has received an impressive number of awards at international festivals:
Best Muhr Fiction Feature
Best Actors (Mohammad Bakri & Saleh Bakri)
Dubai International Film Festival 2017
Golden Astor for Best Feature Film in the International Competition
Best Actor (Mohamad Bakri)
Best Feature Film Award Argentine Film Critics’ Association
Best Feature Film SIGNIS Award
Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata 2017
Best Film
Kerala International Film Festival, India 2017
FICC/IFFS Prize, Youth Jury Environment Prize, and ISPEC Cinema Award
Locarno Film Festival 2017
Special Jury Award
MedFilm Festival in Rome 2017
Special jury mention
BFI London Film Festival 2017
Deeply engaging, elegantly melancholic, and emotionally generous, Wajib
is Jacir’s most mature work to date. It is an honest, entertaining panorama of middle class Palestinians
elevated by the never-better Bakris, whose transfixing chemistry and sizzling charisma makes it a film for the ages.
Middle East Eye
A whip-smart, moving comedy of family and community…
Cinevue
The film’s title translates as “duty,” and part of the tension between
father and son comes from what this term really means.
Variety
[Wajib] is proof, if any further evidence was needed, that Jacir is the
pre-eminent female filmmaker in the Arab world…
Filmaker Magazine
