When Pigs Have Wings Page #2

Synopsis: After a tempest, fishermen do not find only fish in their nets. That is what happens to Jafaar, a poor fisherman who lives poorly in Gaza. And what he hauls in is really upsetting : imagine that, a pig! An unclean animal judged impure not only by the Faith of Islam but also by the Jewish religion. Determined to get rid of the animal, Jafaar tries desperately to sell it, first to a United Nations official, then to a Jewish colony where Yelena raises pigs not for their meat but for security reasons. Of course, going unnoticed in the company of a "forbidden" animal, among his Palestinian brothers, past Israeli soldiers and under the scrutiny of Islamic fundamentalists is no bed of roses and a series of misadventures await Jafaar....
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Sylvain Estibal
  3 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Year:
2011
98 min
71 Views


Rami from Shin Gimmel.

There's a native here.

He wants...

Yeah, okay.

Send him here.

Wait.

- Good day.

- What do you want?

I have pig for you.

We don't take pigs here.

Don't say like this.

It's good pig.

Only one pig like this

in whole territory.

You will never see pig like this.

Pig, from Vietnam.

We do not need pigs.

Jafaar know you have pigs.

Jafaar smell pig.

Jafaar know everything.

If you see my pig, you like my pig.

Go back where you come from.

Come on, get out.

This where I come from!

I come from here!

You, you not come from here,

but I, yes!

I said get out!

Go on.

What have we done to deserve this?

You'd have been better off in Vietnam.

You poor swine.

There he is, there he is!

He's owed me 300 shekels

for three months!

Is this true?

Have you not paid your debts?

Man, there are no fish.

The Israelis don't let us let us fish

more than 4 kilometres off the coast.

We must be content with

tiny fish and garbage.

Listen, I can get you flip flops.

Left flip-flop, right.

Listen, I'll make it simple.

Tomorrow you pay your debts.

Otherwise you come to jail.

No problem. God willing,

tomorrow I pay it all back.

Please, please, there is no

"God willing"...

OK. No "God willing."

And no flip flops or sardines,

understand?

Let me through.

Let me through!

My name Jafaar.

I fisherman from Gaza.

I fish "Big" from sea.

And I sure you like because

is very nice Big.

Sex?

Male or female?

Errr.. I don't know...

We only need males. The last we

had was killed by a rocket.

What a misfortune...

If my pig male, good for you?

Maybe.

I coming. I coming.

Male! Male!

Male! Male!

Shut up! Are you nuts?

- How much money you give me?

- Bring me his sperm.

What?

A Palestinian pig can't come in here.

It is not Palestine, no.

It's from Vietnam.

I just need his sperm.

Impossible.

No, no!

I give you pig

- with everything...

- I'm not interested in your pig,

I only buy his semen.

Yelena, Joseph called.

Tomorrow at four I will be here.

I make you good price.

- The guard post was attacked?

- No,

that was your shopkeeper

who smashed the window.

He broke a light bulb.

If you don't pay tomorrow,

we go to jail.

What did you say?

It makes no difference,

we're already in prison.

Here.

It's gold.

Hey, that's my wife's dowry!

I need plastic gloves and a bucket.

The big one up there.

The big one. The big one.

Fine, then just the small one.

- The pig is sick?

- Yes, yes, it's good, strong.

But it's nothing!

No, yes, very good, many, many,

take, take, take...

How much money you give?

Bring me more tomorrow, otherwise

I don't pay any more.

You tell pharmacist

that you want the blue pill.

Cough drops?

I don't know.

Blue pills...

Blue pills?

For what?

- They're for my father.

- What's his name?

- I don't know.

- What you don't know?

- Eh, what's your name?

- Abdallah!

His name is Abdullah.

That's not your father.

Aren't you ashamed of yourself?

If you want Viagra, then say so!

It's not for me.

I swear.

You like that, eh?

She's pretty, what with her

brown spots?

Excuse me, may I use the toilet?

In Tel Aviv, I watched this

on telenovela

from Brazil.

The crazies bicker all the time.

Madness! This is very funny.

What dirty business are you up to?

What are you doing lurking

around the settlement?

I collect olive leaves.

My wife...

makes medicine for my

rheumatism and back pain.

I'm a fisherman, lifting heavy nets...

Alright!

You have to pay a toll.

What's this?

Yes, that's the medicine for my back.

This is for old man problems

You're young and...

What's good for you is good for me.

You're late.

Jafaar have a surprise for you.

Your pig is better.

God punishes the muslim who eats swine,

and transforms them into pigs.

Sooner or later

they all stink exactly like pigs.

Because the pig is a sin.

The unbelievers are turned into pigs.

They can be recognized by their smell.

This means that the unbeliever

is a pig, and his smell is bad!

Unforgivable!

Since when do you listen to Abou Zoher?

Your last catch must have

been miserable.

- God is generous!

- Really?

I thought his sermon was very good.

He is a good preacher,

a spirit with a vision.

He was educated in England.

He is the best in all of Palestine.

I would have liked to have heard

more on the pig theme.

For example, what happens if you

come into contact with a pig.

This can't happen, thank God.

That would be bad.

All pigs are unclean?

Of course.

Are some less impure than others?

No.

Is a pig from...

from Asia for example, equally impure?

Aren't the ones from Hindus

a bit more clean?

A pig is a pig, they're all the same.

Like men.

I'll take this dress.

And my wife's dowry.

And the bottle, the perfume!

That one!

- Did you catch red tuna?

- No, a 50 Kilo pig.

What's happened?

Have you liberated Palestine?

Come.

Come.

Where did you get it?

- Do you like it?

- Very much.

Wear these with it..

I completely forgot those.

- They are beautiful!

- Beautiful Yes!

How beautiful!

Really.

Madness!

- Nice?

- Very nice.

- Do you like it?

- Yes.

Perfume...

- It smells good?

- Very good...

Will you shut up?

Shut up!

Listen!

Give us peace!

Pig breeder!

Shut up!

Stop being so, Walid!

Are you crazy?

What's up? Is there a problem?

You think that everything is ok?

We all have problems.

Everything is wrong.

Stop it, or they'll cut down

the olive tree.

My wife inherited it from her father.

Why don't you help us to

pick olives instead?

Come on, Walid!

Come on, you can have some.

Come on, they're good!

- Come on, these are for you!

- No thanks. I have to go.

Come, come!

Where is young woman?

- About your pig?

- Yes.

- Yelena?

- Yes, yes, Yelena.

Call her.

It did not work!

- What?

- The insemination, it did not work.

Why not?

Do not know.

Normally it's perfectly.

Come on, Yelena.

Don't talk to this terrorist.

We need natural reproduction.

I need your pig every day.

What do you mean, pig every day?

There's no choice.

Nobody must know about it.

- Bring your pig here.

- Here?

Bring pig? Here?

No, no, impossible!

Is very too danger. No.

If see me with big I dead.

Because it very dirty,

bad animal for us.

For us too it is an unclean animal.

Many people criticize me.

They want to get rid of my pigs.

If I can't make them reproduce,

they will get what they want.

Anyway, I have nothing to lose.

The colony is being moved.

The army will expel us.

I will be returned to my country.

Where is your country?

I'm Russian. I came here

because it was my father's dream.

- He wanted to emigrate to Israel.

- Yelena!

Bring me your pig tomorrow.

I will look for you.

Do you know Drogba?

I bet he's a footballer.

Is it true that you like pigs?

Now, what the... little rascal!

Go on!

Dirty rascal!

Get yourself ready, this is your party.

Don't disgrace me.

Thanks for your medicine.

It's given me real swing!

- I need more.

- Impossible. I have nothing left.

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Sylvain Estibal

Sylvain Estibal (born 13 March 1967) is a French reporter, author and film director. The film The Last Flight was based on Estibal's 2006 book. He directed the film When Pigs Have Wings for which he was awarded the César Award for Best Debut. more…

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