Wednesday January 5th 2022 
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The Lebanon  2017  113 minutes
Director: Ziad  Doueiri
Starring: Adel Karam, Kamel El Basha, Rita Hayek

‘Wajib’ is an Arabic word expressing the feeling of duty and ‘obligation’. In this story we follow a father (Abu) and his estranged son (Shadi) as they drive around the city of Nazareth in the ancient family Volvo. They are fulfilling an old Muslim tradition of personally distributing invitations to the forthcoming wedding of Abu’s daughter. Shadi has briefly returned from Italy to help his father in this task, as Abu’s wife left him some time ago for a new life in America. As they call on relatives and old friends, and argue about politics, life and emigration, we get fascinating and subtle glimpses of what it means to live in a predominantly Muslim town ruled by the Israeli state.