The members of an Egyptian police band, all neat in their powder blue uniforms, turn up to perform in an...
The members of an Egyptian police band, all neat in their powder blue uniforms, turn up to perform in an Arab cultural festival in Israel. Unfortunately they take the wrong bus from the airport and end up in tiny Bet Hatikva, home, they are assured, to "no Arab culture, no Israeli culture, no culture at all". The people they meet in a bus stop café offer them hospitality. Communicating in English, some more successfully than others, Arab visitors and Israeli hosts dine, dance, share stories, laugh, confide, sigh and pass the night away.
The principal characters are the crusty old band leader, his handsome young nemesis, and the beautiful proprietor of the café who puts them both up. Other characters are deftly rendered in a few strokes and the narrative style is pleasurably pictorial, drawing out carefully framed group tableaux to lovely deadpan effect.
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- Award winner
- Award of the Youth, FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes 2007.
- Rating
- M, low level offensive language
- Runtime
- 86
- Genre
- Comedy, Drama
- Country of origin
- Israel, France, USA