Jaffa

1h 46min

Drama

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.

Production Companies

MEDIA Programme of the European Union

Bizibi

Transfax Film Productions

Rohfilm

Rabinovich Film Fund Cinema Project

Keshet Broadcasting

Canal+

ARTE France Cinéma

Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung

Cast

Dana Ivgy

Dana Ivgy

Mali Wolf
Moni Moshonov

Moni Moshonov

Reuven Wolf
Ronit Elkabetz

Ronit Elkabetz

Osnat 'Ossi' Wolf
Roy Assaf

Roy Assaf

Meir Wolf
Lili Ivgy

Lili Ivgy

Shiran Wolf
Dalia Beger

Dalia Beger

Aunt Suzi

Release date

10th Jun 2009

Status

Released

Spoken languages

العربية, עִבְרִית