Jordan has a small but quietly striking film culture, with Theeb earning the country its first Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 2016. Set against the Wadi Rum desert during the First World War, it announced a confident new voice in Arab cinema. See what Macca made of it and any further Jordanian titles below.
Rating: 3.0★
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Cinema has long wrestled with the Palestinian experience, but rarely with the scope and emotional weight that All That's Left of You attempts. The film opens in the Occupied West Bank of the 1980s, where a single act of protest by a teenage boy sets in motion a
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★★★ — Theeb (2014)
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