In "Haifa Chronicles: Palestinian Stories," Scandar Copti films the secrets and lies of a Palestinian family in Israel.

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The 2000s were the golden age of a new Israeli cinema that was regularly exported to the international market, particularly to France. It was surprising that so many interesting, striking, and original titles could come from such a small country. Let us recall here a few names, which became rarer in the following decade: Dover Kosashvili ( Late Marriage , 2001), Keren Yedaya ( My Treasure , 2004), Ronit Elkabetz ( Taking a Wife , 2004), David Volach ( My Father, My Lord , 2007), Avi Mograbi ( Z32 , 2008), Ari Folman ( Waltz with Bashir , 2008), Samuel Maoz ( Lebanon , 2009), Haïm Tabakman ( Tu n'aimeras point , 2009), etc.

Among the most striking aesthetic proposals of this decade, film buffs will have strongly remembered Ajami (2009), a film noir co-directed by a Jewish-Palestinian duo of Israeli nationality, Yaron Shani and Scandar Copti . Added to the interest, not to say the intrinsic beauty, of this co-authorship was, on the contrary, a chronicle in three tableaux, tense, violent, morbid, of a multi-ethnic neighborhood of the old city of Jaffa (adjacent to Tel Aviv), where intercommunity animosity caused bloodshed.

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