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Inshallah A Boy

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April 13, 2024, Posted in Uncategorized | No comments

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Inshallah a Boy (2024)

— 113 min - Drama, Social conflict - 12 January 2024
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A widow pretends to be pregnant with a son in order to save her daughter and home from a relative exploiting Jordan’s patriarchal inheritance laws. This thriller from the Cannes Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival is Jordan’s Official Entry for Best International Film at the Academy Awards. The film won several awards: * Grand Prize in Post-Production at the Marrakech International Film Festival. ** Four awards from the Final Cut Venice Workshop at the Venice Film Festival. *** El Gouna Film Festival Award, worth $5,000.** **** Freiburg Film Festival Award, Switzerland...

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Divine Intervention

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March 27, 2023, Posted in Uncategorized

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Divine Intervention (2003)

— 92 min - Drama, Romance, Comedy - 11 April 2003
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Santa Claus tries to outrun a gang of knife-wielding youth. It's one of several vignettes of Palestinian life in Israel - in a neighborhood in Nazareth and at Al-Ram checkpoint in East Jerusalem. Most of the stories are droll, some absurd, one is mythic and fanciful; few words are spoken. A man who goes through his mail methodically each morning has a heart attack. His son visits him in hospital. The son regularly meets a woman at Al-Ram; they sit in a car, hands caressing. Once, she defies Israeli guards at the checkpoint; later, Ninja-like, she takes on soldiers at a target range. A red balloon floats free overhead...

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