Directed by Yaron Shani, Scandar Copti • Crime • 2009 • Israel, Germany, UK • Arabic, Hebrew with English subtitles
Starring Shahir Kabaha, Ibrahim Frege, Fouad Habash

Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, “Ajami” is a bold crime drama set on the margins of an Arab ghetto in Jaffa, Israel. Teeming with Palestinians, Israeli Arabs, Christians, and Jews, Ajami is a cloistered neighborhood as treacherous as the front lines of Gaza. When a Bedouin extortionist is killed in self-defense, a teenager dies in retribution, and an Arab family faces ruin.