Ajami (Not Rated) - Crime, love, and loyalty mix with simmering racial tensions in this taut film about intersecting lives in a Tel Aviv neighborhood. Ajami weaves together the stories of four men with vastly different circumstances, from a young Israeli is up against a criminal vendetta against his family to a Palestinian refugee who’s working illegally to pay for a family member’s surgery. As their stories unfold and overlap, tensions rise until a tipping point that affects them all, for a compelling movie that scored an Oscar nomination. (Shahir Kabaha [Omar], Ibrahim Frege [Malek], Scandar Copti [Binj])