Ana Arabia (2003) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

2003 · 85 mins · Hebrew

Directed by

Amos Gitai

Starring

Sarah Adler, Assi Levy, Uri Gavriel, Norman Issa, Yuval Scharf, Yussuf Abu-Warda

Filmed in a single 85‑minute continuous take, the movie follows a young journalist who enters a forgotten enclave on the edge of Jaffa and Bat Yam, where Jewish and Arab outcasts live together in dilapidated shacks and a lemon‑tree orchard. She meets characters such as Youssef, Miriam, Sarah and Walid, whose lives, dreams, love affairs and disappointments reveal a different relationship to time and a fragile possibility of coexistence, offering a universal metaphor of shared humanity.