Yussef then surrenders, admitting responsibility for shooting the American and asking for medical assistance the police are shocked to realise they were shooting at children. The police continue shooting, hitting Ahmed in the back, severely injuring him. After Ahmed is hit in the leg, Yussef returns fire, striking one police officer in the shoulder. The police corner the father and boys on the rocky slope of a hill and open fire. Finally, the three try to flee but are spotted. Abdullah, who has heard about the shooting, asks the boys where the rifle is and beats the truth out of them. Glimpses of television news programs reveal that the US government considers the shooting a terrorist act and is pressuring the Moroccan government to apprehend the culprits. The two boys realize what has happened and flee the scene, hiding the rifle in the hills. Yussef's bullet hits the bus, critically wounding Susan Jones, an American woman from San Diego who is traveling with her husband Richard on vacation. Doubtful of the rifle's purported three-kilometer range, they decide to test it out, aiming first at rocks, a moving car on a highway below, and then at a bus carrying Western tourists. Ahmed, the older of the two, criticises Yussef for spying on their sister while she changes her clothes. Abdullah gives the rifle to his two young sons, Yussef and Ahmed, and sends them out to tend to the herd. 270 Winchester M70 rifle and a box of ammunition from his neighbor Hassan Ibrahim to shoot the jackals that have been preying on his goats. In a desert in Morocco, Abdullah, a goatherder, buys a. The film is not edited in a linear chronological order. Babel won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, and received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress for both Rinko Kikuchi and Adriana Barraza, winning for Best Original Score.īabel has four main strains of actions and characters which are location based. The film opened in selected cities in the United States on 27 October 2006, and went into wide release on 10 November 2006. The film was later screened at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The film features an ensemble cast and use of hyperlink cinema, which portrays interwoven stories taking place in Morocco, Japan, Mexico, and the United States.īabel was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, where González Iñárritu won the Best Director Award. It is an international co-production among companies based in the United States, Mexico and France. The multi-narrative drama completes Arriaga's and Iñárritu's Death Trilogy, following Amores perros and 21 Grams. Babel is a 2006 psychological drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga.

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