Ajami, which is an Israeli based movie, was released for public viewing in theatres on Feb 3 of 2010, earning a total of 275,847 dollars, all across the world. It was released in sixteen theatres across the world and stayed for public viewing for thirty days.

Ajami first appeared at the Cannes Film Festival, in 2009, and has since won several awards at different festivals and ceremonies across the world, including the Cannes, London, Jerusalem and Thessaloniki film festivals. On February 15, at the Academy Awards award announcements, this movie took recognition and was nominated for an 82nd annual Academy Award for Foreign Language Picture, but was beat byThe White Rabbit.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1077262/awards

The Israeln movie Ajami is a movie about the home of the Jews, Muslims, and Christians. After two young brothers' Uncle assaults a local criminal, they start to worry about assassination. The criminal is a young Palestinian works illegally to pay for his mother's surgery. His mother is an Israeli woman who wants to build a new life with her Palestinian boyfriend. It also follows a Jewish police officer who is intent on finding his missing brother.

Rarely has the tinderbox nature of the Middle East been so accurately lensed, on such an intimate scale, as in Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani's powerful "Ajami."http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117940351.html?categoryid=31&cs=1

Hollywood [may]think that Ajami is making a political statement... given the partnership of the directors. Unfortunately, it's not enough to make this a memorable film. -Daniel M. Kimmel, The Jewish Advocatehttp://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ajami/

It has a complex, elliptical structure that uses unconventional filming techniques to tell a bleak and fatalistic story conveyed with an unnerving sense of verisimilitude. -Kenneth Turran, L.A. Timeshttp://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ajami/

• Moshe Yerushalmi, Tamar Yerushalmi, Sigal Harel, Eran Naim, Hilal Kabob, Shahir Kabaha]], Scandar Copti, Ibrahim Frege, Abu George Shibil, Fouad Habash, Nisrine Rihan, and Elias Saba.