Ana Arabia

Filmed in one sequenceshot of 1 hour and 25 minutes Ana Arabia is a moment in the life of a small community of outcasts Jews and Arabs who live together in a forgotten enclave at the border between Jaffa and Bat Yam in Israel One day Yael a young journalist visits them In these dilapidated shacks in the orchard filled with lemon trees and surrounded by mass public houses she discovers a range of characters far removed from the usual clichés offered by the region Yael has the feeling of having discovered a human goldmine She no longer thinks of her job Faces and words of Youssef and Miriam Sarah and Walid of their neighbors their friends tell her about life its dreams and its hopes its love affairs desires and disillusions Their relation to time is different than that of the city around them In this tinkered and fragile place there is a possibility of coexistence A universal metaphor