MAN WITHOUT A CELL PHONE
by Sameh Zoabi
synopsis
Jawdat is twenty years old and comes from a Muslim family. He is studying at an Israeli university in Nazareth, but he’s not doing so well in his Hebrew lessons and wants to transfer to an Arab college. His origins also complicate his attempts to date the Jewish girl Jenine. And then he has arguments with his conservative dad Salem, who’s convinced that the nearby cell phone transmitter is damaging his olive harvest and the health of everyone in the vicinity. Jawdat’s cell phone is causing yet further problems: it seems that the police are suspicious of the young man’s innocent telephone conversations with a girl from the Palestinian territory...
international title: | Man Without a Cell Phone |
original title: | Ish li'lo cellularit |
country: | France, Palestine, Israel, Belgium, Qatar |
sales agent: | Memento International |
year: | 2010 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Sameh Zoabi |
film run: | 80' |
release date: | FR 25/07/2012 |
screenplay: | Sameh Zoabi |
cast: | Razi Shawahdeh, Basem Loulou, Louay Noufi, Maysa Abd Elhadi |
cinematography by: | Sameh Zoabi |
film editing: | Simon Jacquet |
costumes designer: | Nael Kanj |
music: | Sameh Zoabi |
producer: | Marie Gutman |
production: | Méroé Films, Versus Production, Lama Films/Israel, Kanmakam |
backing: | Rabinovich Film Fund Cinema Project/Israel |
distributor: | Eurozoom |