2016 PS Film Festival
This crisp, compelling, expertly framed desert adventure film supplies a kind of reverse angle on Lawrence of Arabia, with a young Bedouin boy dragged into the hornet’s nest stirred up by WWI. Winner: Best Director, Horizons, Venice.
film details
| Director: | Naji Abu Nowar |
| Producers: | Bassel Ghandour, Rupert Lloyd |
| Screenwriter: | Naji Abu Nowar, Bassel Ghandour |
| Cinematographers: | Wolfgang Thaler |
| Editor: | Rupert Lloyd |
| Music: | Jerry Lane |
| Cast: | Jacir Eid Al-Hwietat, Hussein Salameh Al-Sweilhiyeen, Hassan Mutlag Al-Maraiyeh, Jack Fox |
| Country: | Jordan/Qatar, UK |
| Language: | Arabic |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Running Time: | 100 minutes |
| Awards: | Horizons Award, Best Director, Venice (2014); Academy Award Nominee: Best Foreign Film |
| Display Format: | DCP |