5 Best Movies from Jordan to Watch First

5 Essential Films from Jordan

Ranked native cinema in Jordan’s own creative voice.

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   1. Theeb

   ذيب · 2014

   In the Arabian desert of 1916, a young Bedouin boy following his brother as a guide for a British officer is stranded and must survive alone amid raiders and the upheavals of the Great Arab Revolt. A gripping, beautifully shot coming-of-age Western.

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   2. Farha

   2021

   In 1948 Palestine, a bright village girl dreaming of school in the city sees her world shattered by war, and is left hidden in a locked storeroom, witnessing catastrophe through a crack in the door. A wrenching wartime drama.

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   3. Captain Abu Raed

   2007

   An aging airport janitor who has always longed to see the world is mistaken for an airline pilot by the children of his poor Amman neighborhood, and he begins spinning tales of far-off places that stir their dreams and his own. A tender drama.

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   4. Inshallah a Boy

   إن شاء الله ولد · 2023

   When her husband dies suddenly, a Jordanian working mother must fight to keep her home and her daughter under inheritance laws that would favor her had she borne a son, forcing her into a desperate, risky struggle. A sharp, tense social drama.

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   5. The Savior

   2014

   Set in Roman-ruled Palestine seething with rebellion, this drama recounts the life and miracles of Jesus as narrated by the apostle Luke. A biblical epic.