Junction 48

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A few kilometers east of Tel Aviv lies Lod, an impoverished town where Arabs and Jews live side by side. Kareem, a young Palestinian musician, spends his days aimlessly with occasional office jobs and his drug-dealing friends. When a car accident kills his father and confines his mother to a wheelchair, he finds his home in the world of hip-hop. At a concert, his friend Manar’s singing ignites an attack by racist Jewish rappers. In the neighborhood, a friend’s house is threatened with demolition by the government. Together, Kareem and Manar musically take up the fight against oppression by Israeli society – but also the fight against violence in their own conservative community, which is shaped by patriarchal feelings of honor and threatens their independent way of life.

Tamer Nafar, leading actor and charismatic frontman of DAM, the first Palestinian rap group, transforms with Israeli director Udi Aloni personal life events into a new voice of the young Arab generation: filled with energetic hope for an equal coexistence.

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Festivals

2016
Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival
2016
Berlin International Film Festival
2016
Philadelphia Film Festival
2016
Tribeca Film Festival
2016
Woodstock Film Festival

Awards

2016
Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival
Won - Best Actor
Tamer Nafar
Won - Best Music
Tamer Nafar Itamar Ziegler
Nominated - Best Film
Udi Aloni
2016
Awards of the Israeli Film Academy
Won - Best Music
Tamer Nafar Itamar Ziegler
Won - Best Sound
Itai Elohev Gil Toren
Nominated - Best Actor
Tamer Nafar
Nominated - Best Cinematography
Amnon Zlayet
Nominated - Best Art Direction
Salim Shehade
2016
Berlin International Film Festival
Won - Fiction Film - Panorama
Udi Aloni
Nominated - Amnesty International Film Prize
Udi Aloni
2016
Philadelphia Film Festival
Won - Student Choice Award
Udi Aloni
2016
Tribeca Film Festival
Won - Best International Narrative Feature
Udi Aloni
2016
Woodstock Film Festival
Won - Best Narrative Feature
Udi Aloni
Production Companies
  • Metro Communications
  • X Filme Creative Pool
  • Blackbird, Dig the Movie
Produced by
Director

Udi Aloni

Script
  • Oren Moverman
  • Tamer Nafar
DOP

Amnon Zalait

Production Design

Salim Sh’hade

Costume Design

Dany Bar Shay

Editor
  • Isaac Sehayek
  • Jay Rabinowitz ACE
Composer
  • Tamer Nafar
  • Itamar Ziegler
Cast
  • Tamer Nafar
  • Samar Qupty
  • Salwa Nakkara
  • Saeed Dassuki
  • Adeeb Safadi
World Sales

The Match Factory