
Ajami is an area of Jaffa where Arabs, Palestinians, Jews and Christians try to live together in an atmosphere that is -to say the least - electric. Omar, an Israeli Arab, struggles to save his family from elimination by a gang of extortionists. He also courts a beautiful Christian girl, Hadir, but marrying her is far from obvious. Malek, an illegal Palestinian worker, tries to collect enough money to pay for his mother's operation. Dando, an Israeli cop, does his utmost to t... (Full plot summary below)
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Ajami is an area of Jaffa where Arabs, Palestinians, Jews and Christians try to live together in an atmosphere that is -to say the least - electric. Omar, an Israeli Arab, struggles to save his family from elimination by a gang of extortionists. He also courts a beautiful Christian girl, Hadir, but marrying her is far from obvious. Malek, an illegal Palestinian worker, tries to collect enough money to pay for his mother's operation. Dando, an Israeli cop, does his utmost to trace his missing brother who may have been killed by Palestinians. Binj, Malek and Omar's Arab friend, suffers from being rejected by other members of his community for mixing with an Israeli girl. All of them will meet violence, most of the time ... with violence.
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| Daily Telegraph (UK)Tim RobeyThe actors, every one of them new to their craft, make the everydayness of the picture indelible and real. |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsBy showing how people fail to live together - in a film you could call Israel's City of God, with its sectarian-feuding story lent power and immediacy by improvisation and non-professional casting - Ajami shows how they might or should live together. |
| ComingSoon.netEdward DouglasA terrific and well-realized first film, one that allows you into a world that very few outsiders have a chance to see and allows you to marvel at the storytelling skills of these two filmmakers. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenAs complex as Paul Haggis's film "Crash," this one may be confusing the first time around but affords the viewer an emotional picture of life in one of Israel's toughest neighborhoods. |
| NYC Movie GuruAvi OfferA brutally honest, harrowing and provocative glimpse into the cycle of violence in the Middle East. |
| Boxoffice MagazineWade MajorA timely and timeless look at the intersecting lives, fortunes and fates of Jews, Christians and Muslims in the fragile Ajami neighborhood of Jaffa, Israel. |
| The Jewish AdvocateDaniel M. KimmelHollywood [may]think that Ajami is making a political statement... given the partnership of the directors. Unfortunately, it's not enough to make this a memorable film. |
| Capital Times (Madison, WI)Rob ThomasWhile Quentin Tarantino used the narrative device to give his film a caffeinated jolt of hipster cool, co-directors Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani use it brilliantly to show the chaotic web of violence that traps Jews, Christians and Muslims alike. |
| Metro Times (Detroit, MI)Jeff MeyersStories of violence, revenge and corruption smartly told by next-gen foreign filmmakers |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzGripping modern-day drama about crime and tensions among the Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs. |