Jalla! Jalla!

Retrospective Children's and Youth, Sweden 2000, 88 Min.

Jalla! Jalla!

Friends Måns and Roro work as parking lot attendants. Day in and day out, they have plenty to do – from cleaning the duck pond to clearing away dog excrement. Then love complicates things. While Måns struggles with his impotence problem, Roro dreads introducing his Swedish girlfriend Lisa to his Lebanese family. When he finally plucks up the courage, he is presented with a fiancée and all her relatives. But Yasmin has no intention of marrying Roro. Josef Fares’ feature film debut is not only a thoroughly entertaining comedy about love, sex and cultural differences, but also a buddy-movie that touches a very topical chord: without poking fun at the cultural misunderstandings, Fares uses them as material for hilarious jokes that young people all over Europe can identify with.

Director Josef Fares

Screenplay Josef Fares

Cast Fares Fares (Roro), Torkel Petersson (Mans), Tuva Novotny (Lisa), Laleh Pourkarim (Yasmin), Leonard Terfelt (Paul), Jan Fares (Roros Vater), Sofi Ahlstrom Helleday (Jenny), Benyam Eriksson, Kathoun Fares, Abdulahad Fares

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