Film guide 2017
Wajib
Delivering wedding invitations becomes a day of disagreement and rediscovery for a father and son.
- Original title
- Wajib
- Director
- Annemarie Jacir
- Year
- 2017
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Story, without spoilers
Shadi returns from Rome to Nazareth to help his father distribute invitations to his sister's wedding by hand. Driving from household to household, they revisit old tensions and encounter the community Abu Shadi knows intimately. A practical family obligation opens a conversation about different ways of belonging.
Context & recognition
Annemarie Jacir places a family relationship at the centre of this small-scale road film. Mohammad and Saleh Bakri, father and son in life, play the estranged pair. Wajib competed at Locarno in 2017.
Main characters & cast
Abu Shadi
Mohammad Bakri
A schoolteacher and father preparing his daughter's wedding.
Shadi
Saleh Bakri
His architect son, returning after years abroad.