Jaffa

Drama | 2009-06-10 | France, Germany, Israel

5.9 / 10

106 min.

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.

MEDIA Programme of the European Union

Bizibi

Transfax Film Productions

Rohfilm

Rabinovich Film Fund Cinema Project

Keshet Broadcasting

Canal+

ARTE France Cinéma

Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung