Winner of the best screenplay award in Cannes' Un Certain Regard strand, Palestinian writer-director Maha Haj's follow up to 'Personal Affairs' stars Amer Hlehel and Ashraf Farah as frenemy neighbors in Haifa.
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explores a complicated friendship-enmity — call it a “frenmity” — between two middle-aged neighbors, adeptly played by Amer Hlehel and Ashraf Farah. Concerned mostly with domestic life, mental health, crime and class, this is one of those relatively rare features from either Palestine or Israel that’s not completely marinated in politics, history and religion, only lightly spiced.
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