Wajib

Mohammed Bakri plays father to his real-life son Saleh Bakri in an intimate look at the lives of Palestinians living within Israel’s borders by director Annemarie Jacir—whose newest film, the historical drama Palestine 36, opens at BAM Rose Cinemas on March 27. Abu Shadi, a divorced father in his mid-sixties and a school teacher in Nazareth, will be living alone after his daughter’s wedding in one month. Shadi, his architect son, arrives from Rome after years abroad to help his father in hand-delivering the wedding invitations to each guest, per local Palestinian custom. As the estranged pair spend the day together, the tense details of their relationship come to a head, challenging their fragile and very different lives.