Product Description
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Nominated for the 2016 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language
Film. In 1916, while war rages in the Ottoman Empire, Hussein
raises his younger brother Theeb ("Wolf") in a traditional
Bedouin community that is isolated by the vast, unforgiving
desert. The brothers' quiet existence is suddenly interrupted
when a British Army officer and his guide ask Hussein to escort
them to a water well located along the old pilgrimage route to
Mecca. So as not to dishonor his recently deceased her,
Hussein agrees to lead them on the long and treacherous journey.
The young, mischievous Theeb secretly chases after his brother,
but the group soon find themselves trapped amidst threatening
terrain riddled with Ottoman mercenaries, Arab revolutionaries,
and outcast Bedouin raiders. Naji Abu Nowar's powerful and
assured directorial debut, set in the land of Lawrence of Arabia,
is a wondrous "Bedouin Western" about a boy who, in order to
survive, must become a man and live up to the name his her
gave him.
Review
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FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
WINNER Orizzonti Best Director, Venice International Film
Festival
Sutherland Jury Special Mention, BFI London International Film
Festival
WINNER FIPRESCI Award, Abu Dhabi International Film Festival
WINNER Best Arab Film, Abu Dhabi International Film Festival
Variety Arab Filmmaker of the Year
Prospects of Arab Cinema Jury Special Mention, Cairo
International Film Festival
WINNER Best Debut Director, Camerimage International Film
Festival
Student Jury Special Mention for Actor Jacir Eid, Carthage
International Film Festival
WINNER Best Film, Film Fest Belgrade
WINNER Best Screenplay, Film Fest Belgrade
WINNER Best Screenplay, Miami International Film Festival
WINNER Audience Award, Las Palmas International Film Festival
WINNER Best Debut Film, Beijing International Film Festival
WINNER Best Film, Malmo Arab Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION:
Venice Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
London Film Festival
Abu Dhabi Film Festival
Palm Springs International Film Festival
New Directors/New Films
Miami International Film Festival
SXSW Film Festival
San Francisco International Film Festival
Seattle International Film Festival ---
Nowar...has described THEEB as 'an Arabic western' in the
tradition of Sergio Leone. The movie is that and more. - Stephen
Holden, New York Times
It is a spectacularly epic film with a wonderfully
human story. It possesses everything that allows me fall in love
with cinema, again and again…THEEB is…the kind of film that grabs
a hold of you and doesn't let go. --E. Nina Rothe, Huffington
Post
This beautiful film follows the exploits of a Bedouin boy named
Theeb in 1916, the same year as LAWRENCE OF ARABIA....You'd never
know THEEB was a debut feature from Mr. Nowar's confident
technique, and I found it astonishing, given the perfection of
the performances, that all but one of the actors were Bedouin
villagers who had never acted before.....More than style, though,
it's the substance of THEEB that's memorable. --Joe Morgenstern,
The Wall Street Journal