In this dark comedy, an Arab Israeli’s midlife crises provokes a scheme to sell bottles of Nazareth’s air to tourists.

Life as a Christian Arab in modern day Nazareth can be messy, but that’s not the end of Adam’s problems. His frisky and volatile wife is intent on getting pregnant, his dad is dying of tongue cancer, and the accompanying financial angst is leaving Adam weary and depressed. Always enterprising, he hatches a plan of self-redemption: if tourists are purchasing flasks of holy water, why not bottle and sell sacred air?

Written, directed, and starring Israel’s Shady Srour (SENSE OF NEED), HOLY AIR premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Its combination of capitalism, Catholic kitsch, sex and morality is reminiscent of a Coen Brothers comedy - Srour lets the humour unfold in patient shots that deadpan reality. The result is unusual, funny and deeply satisfying.