2023
Jordan - France - KSA -Qatar
113 minutes - DCP- 1.85 - Color
Official language: Arabic
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Cast
Mouna Hawa – Nawal
Haitham Omari – Rifqi
Yumna Marwan – Lauren
Salwa Nakkara – Souad
Mohammad Al Jizawi – Ahmad
Eslam Al-Awadi – Hassan
Celina Rabab’a – Nora
Credits
Director – Amjad Al Rasheed
Screenplay – Amjad Al Rasheed, Rula Nasser, Delphine Agut
Image – Kanamé Onoyama (AFC)
Editing – Ahmed Hafez
Sound – Nour Halawani
Costumes – Zeina Soufan
Art director – Nasser Zoubi
Hairdresser & Make up – Farah Jadaane
Music – Jerry Lane
Production - The Imaginarium Films, Bayt Al shawareb, Georges Films
Produce by Rula Nasser and Aseel Abu Ayyash
Coproduce by Youssef Abdelnabi, Raphaël Alexandre, Nicolas Leprêtre
Festivals & Awards
Cannes Film Festival 2023, Critic's week, competition - Gan Foundation Award & Rail d'Or Award
Mystic Film Festival (USA) - Best screenplay
Asian Pacific Awards - Best actress (Mouna Hawa)
Asian World Film Festival (USA) - Best actress (Mouna Hawa)
Golden Rooster Film Festival (China) - Best actress (Mouna Hawa)
Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Greece) - Best actress for Mouna Hawa (Meet the Neighbrs+' section)
Jakarta World Cinema Week (Indonesia) – Audience award
Camerimage Film Festival (Poland) - Best first film
Red Sea International Film Festival (Saudi Arabia) - Best actress (Mouna Hawa)
Rotterdam Arab Film Festival - Best Actress and Jury Prize
Mystic Film Festival - Best screenplay Narrative Feature
2023
Sydney IFF (Australia)
Melbourne IFF (Australia)
Brisbane International Film Festival (Australia)
Der Neue Heimatfilm (Austria)
International Film Fest Gent (Belgium)
Rio de Janeiro IFF
48th Toronto International Film Festival - TIFF
Calgary Arab Film Nights 2023 (Canada)
Festival du cinéma international en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Canada)
Karlovy Vary IFF (Czech Republic)
Hamburg IFF (Germany)
Arab Film Festival - Tubingen (Germany)
B3 Biennale - Frankfurt
Mumbai IFF
International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK)
Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival (JAFF)
Morelia IFF -Critics’ Week section (Mexico)
Ulaanbaatar IFF (Mongolia)
New Zealand IFF
New Horizons Film Festival - Wroclaw (Poland)
Cinematik Film Festival (Slovakia)
Busan IFF (South Korea) - A Window of Asian Cinema
Stockholm IFF
Word Cinema Amsterdam FF
Ayvalık International Film Festival (Turkey)
Sharjah Film Platform
BFI London IFF
Leeds IFF
26º Festival Internacional de Cine de Punta del Este (Uruguay)
Mill Valley Film Festival
Montclair Film Festival
AFI Fest - Los Angeles (USA)
The Arab Film Festival - San Fransisco (USA)
2024
BREC International Film Festival Summer 2024 (Australia)
RAMDAM Filmfestival (Belgium)
Palm Springs International Film Festival
Sun & Stars International Film Festival Palm Beach
Joburg Film Festival (South Africa)
Jordan, nowadays. After the sudden death of her husband, Nawal, 30s, has to fight for her part of inheritance in order to save her daughter and home in a society where having a son would be a game changer.
Jordanie, de nos jours. Après la mort soudaine de son mari, Nawal, 30 ans, doit se battre pour sa part d’héritage, afin de sauver sa fille et sa maison, dans une société où avoir un fils changerait la donne.