{"id":6076,"date":"2019-09-17T08:34:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T06:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.nihrff.de\/6071-revision-v1\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T16:09:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T14:09:29","slug":"films-2019-wajib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/en\/films-2019-wajib\/","title":{"rendered":"Wajib"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Wajib<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

DIRECTOR(S): <\/strong>Annemarie Jacir\u00a0\u00a0 COUNTRY: <\/strong>Palestine\u00a0\u00a0 YEAR: <\/strong>2017\u00a0\u00a0 LANGUAGE(S): <\/strong>Arabic\u00a0\u00a0 SUBTITLES: <\/strong>German\u00a0\u00a0 RUNNING TIME: <\/strong>96 min<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SECTION:<\/strong> International Competition 2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

SCREENINGS <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, 03.10., 2.15 pm, Caritas-Pirckheimer-Haus
Sunday, 06.10., 8.15 pm, kommkino<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SYNOPSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The title of\u00a0WAJIB <\/span><\/em>translates as \u2018duty\u2019, and it\u2019s duty that brings architect Shadi (Saleh Bakri) from Rome back to Nazareth, where his sister Amal is to be married. Local tradition dictates that Shadi and his divorced dad, Abu Shadi (Mohammad Bakri), must drive around town delivering wedding invitations. Friction is in the air even before the duo clamber into Abu Shadi\u2019s beloved and beaten-up old Volvo. Shadi thinks the exercise is outdated and meaningless. For his father, it\u2019s about maintaining important community rituals. Bakri and son Saleh are terrific and earthily funny as the bickering duo who meet colourful characters on their cross-city travels.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director\u2019s Statement<\/strong>
In Palestine, there is a tradition which remains a big part of life today. When someone gets married, the men of the family, usually the father and sons, are expected to personally deliver the wedding invitations to each invitee in person. There is no mailing of invitations, or having them delivered by strangers. And unless the invitations are personally delivered, it is considered disrespectful. I don\u2019t know any other place which adheres to this tradition as much as the Palestinians living in the North of Palestine, where WAJIB is set. \u201cWajib\u201d loosely means \u201csocial duty\u201d. When my husband\u2019s sister got married, it was his wajib to deliver the invitations with his father. I decided to silently tag along as he and his father spent five days traversing the city and surrounding villages delivering each invitation. As the silent observer, it was at times funny and other times painful. Aspects of that special relationship between father and son, the tensions of a sometimes tested love between them, came out in small ways. I began working on the idea for a film about this fragile relationship.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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