This is movie that exceeded my expectation. It's a comedy that sometimes makes you roll on the floor laughing. But beyond that it touches so well on a tabu subject. Not only that pigs cannot be eaten but they can't even touch the ground in Israel and Palestina. So what do you do when you find one? Definitely worth watching.

Watching a movie like this when every day the bulletin of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is tragically updated makes a weird effect, but the farcical facade of the story does not hide the tragedy of what has been going on in the Gaza strip for decades. So, it is impossible to deny the amusing side of a movie which really makes laugh, with moments of authentic humour, on the other hand the movie leaves also much to think about the absurdity of a never-ending struggle, without hurting anyone, but mainly siding with the weakest, those who neither win or lose, those who simply come under the conflict and suffer. So, no need to feel guilty for laughing, the drama is always there, to remind us the horror we hear and see in the news every day, but together with ordinary people's will to feel alive and free. Great acting by the whole cast, especially by Sasson Gabay interpreting Jafaar, full of passionate and realistic humanity, and for whom we cannot but feel empathy.

Jafaar (Sasson Gabay) is a Palestinian fisherman who lives humbly or even poorly with his wife Fatima (Baya Belal) in the Gaza Strip. During a fishing, Jafaar accidentally catches in his nets a Vietnamese pig unexpectedly fallen from a freighter. In order to improve his miserable existence, Jafaar will improvise an incredible and barely-recommendable trade with the Israelis.

Funny or even hilarious, When Pigs Have Wings (2011) is a poetic fable that avoids the political commitment while denouncing an absurd situation. The director Sylvain Estibal achieves an endearing 'tour de force' with subtlety and tenderness. 7/8 of 10