Wajib
First screened in September 2017
Director: Annemarie Jacir. Cast: Mohammad Bakri, Saleh Bakri, Maria Zreik, Leila Bakri. Screenplay: Annemarie Jacir.

Twitter Capsule: Uneven devices; needlessly underlines subtler points. Still, brings some dimension to pretty polarized regional discourses.

VOR:   A crowd-pleaser that occasionally panders but also opens up some variety and unresolved tension within portable portraits of Palestinian masculinity.



Photo © 2017 Philistine Films

Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: B–


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