Ana Arabia

Ana Arabia (2013)

Filmed in one sequence-shot of 1 hour and 25 minutes, Ana Arabia is a moment in the life of a small community of outcasts, Jews and Arabs, who live together in a forgotten enclave at the “border” between Jaffa and Bat Yam, in Israel. One day, Yael, a young journalist, visits them. In these dilapidated shacks, in the orchard filled with lemon trees and surrounded by mass public houses, she discovers a range of characters far removed from the usual clichés offered by the region. Yael has the feeling of having discovered a human goldmine. She no longer thinks of her job. Faces and words of Youssef and Miriam, Sarah and Walid, of their neighbors, their friends tell her about life, its dreams and its hopes, its love affairs, desires and disillusions. Their relation to time is different than that of the city around them. In this tinkered and fragile place, there is a possibility of coexistence. A universal metaphor.

Director: Amos Gitai

Release Date: 2013-09-02
Status: Released
Run time: 85 min / 1:25

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Casts

Yuval Scharf
Yael
Yussuf Abu-Warda
Yussuf
Sarah Adler
Miriam
Assi Levy
Sarah
Uri Gavriel
Hassan
Norman Issa
Norman

Crew

Directing Amos Gitai Director
Production Amos Gitai Producer
Writing Amos Gitai Writer
Costume & Make-Up Laura Sheim Costume Design
Writing Marie-Jose Sanselme Writer
Sound Stefano Grosso Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Camera Giora Bejach Director of Photography
Art Miguel Markin Production Design
Production Laurent Truchot Producer
Production Michael Tapuach Producer
Editing Isabelle Ingold Editor
Sound Alex Claude Music Editor
Sound Yuri Priymenko ADR Recordist

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