Cannes Film Festival 2009: Ajami Interviews

The video discusses the creation of a film with a documentary-like style, focusing on reality over imagination. The filmmakers chose to work with non-actors from Jaffa to capture authentic dialects and experiences. They conducted extensive workshops with 300 participants, aged 12 to 65, over nine months. The process involved improvisations and selecting actors who closely matched the pre-written characters, sometimes adapting the characters to fit the actors' unique qualities.

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