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Film: Theeb
Director: Naji Abu Nowar
Duration: 1 hr 40 mins
Cast: Jacir Eid Al-Hwietat, Hussein Salameh Al-Sweilhiyeen, Hassan Mutlag Al-Maraiyeh and Jack Fox
Plot: While war rages in the Ottoman Empire, Hussein raises his younger brother Theeb, which means ‘wolf’ in Arabic, in a traditional Bedouin desert community.
The brothers’ quiet existence is suddenly interrupted when a British Army officer and his guide ask Hussein to escort them to a watering well located along the old pilgrimage route to Mecca.
As not to dishonour his recently deceased father, Hussein agrees to lead them on the long journey. The mischievous Theeb secretly chases after his brother but the group soon find themselves trapped in threatening terrain riddled with mercenaries, revolutionaries and outcast raiders.
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