Wajib

Palestine | 2018 | 1h36 | Fiction Sixty-five-year-old Abu Shadi, a divorced teacher in Nazareth, prepares for his daughter's wedding. In a month's time, he'll be living alone. Shadi, his architect son, who has been living in Rome for years, returns home for a few days to help him distribute the wedding invitations, from hand to hand, as the Palestinian custom of Wajib demands. While visits to family and friends follow one after the other, tensions between father and son rise to the surface and put their differing views about life to the test. Annemarie Jacir was born on January 17, 1974 in Bethlehem, Palestine. She is a writer and producer, known for Le sel de la mer (2008), Lamma shoftak (2012) and Like Twenty Impossibles (2003).