Ghadi is the kind of movie that flirts with disaster at the DNA level but thankfully manages to rise above its potential for discomfort, embarrassment or worse.

Written by Georges Khabbaz, who plays Ghadi’s father Leba, the story employs humour to expose how indifferences can be overcome, if the heart is in the right place.

A gently barbed, sentimentally played social satire whose familiar tale of overcoming bigotry, pettiness and greed could work in just about any insular small-town context.