Screening date:10/12/2011 -- 20h30
Man Without a Cellphone

Like all young people, Jawdat simply wants to have fun with his friends, spend time talking on his cell phone and above all find love… But Jawdat is an Arab Israeli. He dates girls, Muslim girls, Christian girls, even Jewish girls with no success, and desperately tries to pass a Hebrew test that will allow him to study at a university and leave his village.



His situation becomes more complicated when his father, an olive grower, wants him to join him in the fight for the removal of a telephone pole the Israeli telephone company had erected in a nearby field and which he suspects is irradiating the villagers.
Man Without a Cellphone is a comedy about the frustrations of a youngster, in the particular setting of an Arab community in Israel, caught as it is between his native traditions and the lack of esteem for Israeli society.

Country
: France/Palestine
Production: Méroé Films  -  Tel : 01 47 70 27 00 -  Kanmakan (Palestine), Versus Productions (Belgium) et Lama Films (Israel)
Year: 2011
Director: Sameh Zoabi
Editing: Simon Jacquet
Cinematography: Hichame Alaouie
Sound: Olivier Hespel
Music: Krishna Levy
Cast: Razi Shawahdeh, Basem Loulou, Louay Noufi, Maysa Abd Elhadi, Sanaa Shawahdeh, Sama Wakim, Fouad Qutbi, Lutuf Nweiser
35mm – 77'


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biography

Sameh Zoabi was born in 1975 in Iksal, a Palestinian village near Nazareth. A graduate in English literature and cinema from Tel Aviv University, he then earned a scholarship to study at Columbia University in New York, where he obtained an MA in Fine Arts. His graduation short film, Be Quiet, won prizes at several festivals. Man Without a Cellphone won the Cinéfoundation Prize in 2008 and is his first feature film.

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