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.
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CHF 50'000 for production fiction
Festivals and Awards
Locarno 2017: FICC/IFFS Prize, Youth Jury Environment Prize, ISPEC Cinema Award
Toronto 2017, Contemporary World Cinema
Amiens 2017: Golden Unicorn, Audience Award
Mar del Plata 2017: Golden Astor for Best Film, Silver Astor for Best Actor (Mohammad Bakri), ACCA Prize, SIGNIS Award
Dubai 2017: Award for Best Fiction Film, Best Actor (Mohammad Bakri + Saleh Bakri)
Kerala 2017: Best Film
Montpellier 2017: Youth Audience Award
Prishtina 2018: Best Film
Casablanca 2018: Best Film
Oran 2018: Jury Award, Best Actor (Mohammad Bakri + Saleh Bakri)
Casablanca 2018: Best Film
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