Jalla! Jalla!

Film Info

Sweden 2000 | 88 min. Director: Josef Fares

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Jalla! Jalla!

Synopsis

Måns and Roro are best friends and work as park attendants. They get to do all the boring stuff - clean the duck pond and pick up piles of dog shit. Nevertheless, they still think they are cool and awesome. The days calmly pass by until Måns all of a sudden can't get an erection and Roro is faced with the fact that he has one week to avoid being married off.

"Jalla! Jana!" means "Come on!" or "Hurry up!" in Arabic.

Cast & Crew

Director

Josef Fares
Producer

Anna Anthony
Screenwriter

Josef Fares
Director of photography

Aril Wretblad
Main Cast

Fares Fares (Roro), Torkel Petersson (Måns), Tuva Novotny (Lisa), Laleh Pourkarim (Yasmin)
Editor (Cut)

Michal Leszczylowski, Andreas Jonsson
Original Score

Daniel Lemma
Costume Design

Denise Östholm

Biography

Josef Fares was born in 1977 and lives in Stockholm. He came to Sweden from Lebanon with his family in 1987. At the age of 15, he began making his own short films on video. All and all, he directed some 50 short films. With 21 years, Josef was the youngest student ever accepted to Dramatiska Institutet film school in Stockholm, which he still attends.
JALLA! JALLA! is Josef Fares' feature film debut.