The Band’s Visit (2007)
The Alexandria Celebratory Oversee Orchestra arrives in Israel from Egypt for a cultural event, only to find there is no delegation to meet them, nor any arrangements to get to their stopping-place of Petah Tiqva. When they find their own ride, they attain instead at the remote town of Beit Hatikva. Stuck there until the next morning’s bus, the band, initiate by the repressed Tawfiq Zacharya (Sasson Gabai), gets help from the temporal café owner, Dina (Ronit Elkabetz), who offers to hoodwink someone a carry out them up towards the dusk, with lend a hand from Simon (Khalifa Natour). The tenebriousness passes inaudibly enough, but with some profound exchanges and secrets confessed.