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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.
Festivals
Awards
- Metro Communications
- X Filme Creative Pool
- Blackbird, Dig the Movie
- David Silber
- Lawrence Inglee
- Stefan Arndt
- Udi Aloni
Udi Aloni
- Oren Moverman
- Tamer Nafar
Amnon Zalait
Salim Sh’hade
Dany Bar Shay
- Isaac Sehayek
- Jay Rabinowitz ACE
- Tamer Nafar
- Itamar Ziegler
- Tamer Nafar
- Samar Qupty
- Salwa Nakkara
- Saeed Dassuki
- Adeeb Safadi
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