The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, And they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
~Rumi

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Wajib (2017)

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Here I'm going to write about a film which is gentle and wistful, occasionally funny, and occasionally sad and touching. The beauty of this film lies in the fact that - despite not containing one single word of dialogue between either of the two protagonists and an Israeli character - there are more than enough references, oblique and acute, to reveal what it's like to live day to day as an Arab citizen in the Jewish State.

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