Jalla! Jalla! (2000)

Directed by

Josef Fares

Genre

comedy film

Country

Sweden

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

12+

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 137 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two friends in Sweden deal with messy love lives and family expectations. One is torn between his Lebanese family and his Swedish girlfriend. The other tries to hide a medical issue from his partner.

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What happens

Jalla! Jalla! is a Swedish comedy film, which was released in cinemas in Sweden on 22 December 2000. It is directed by Swedish-Lebanese filmmaker Josef Fares, and stars Fares Fares, Torkel Petersson, Tuva Novotny and Laleh Pourkarim in the leading roles. It is Fares's directorial debut film and received seven film festival nominations, of which it won four. The film was selected as the Swedish entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 74th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. “Jalla! Jalla!” is Arabic for “Come on!” or “Hurry up!”. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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