Jaffa

Movies
2009-06-10
HE
Released
2h 46m
BE
Drama

Production

MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Bizibi, Transfax Film Productions, Rohfilm, Rabinovich Film Fund Cinema Project, Keshet Broadcasting, Canal+, ARTE France Cinéma, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung

Storyline

In the city of Jaffa; a young girl plans to run away with her secret lover, when a tragedy forever changes the course of their lives. Jaffa is a mixed Arabic - Jewish seaside city near Tel Aviv, where Reuven Wolf (Moni Moshonov) has a garage for repairing cars. His wife Ossi (Ronit Elkabetz), a vain, self-centered woman, just makes everybody's life difficult. The couple's daughter, Mali Wolf (Dana Ivgy), has secretly fallen in love with her childhood friend, the young Toufik (newcomer Mahmud Shalaby), a hard-working youth who has come as a helping hand to his Israeli-Arab father Hassan, a long-time mechanic working for Reuven.