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★
The premise sounds corny, I'll be straight with you. A djinn unleashed by a missile strike into a Tehran apartment block during the Iran-Iraq War. On paper, that reads like the kind of horror concept you might pitch as a joke. But Babak Anvari's Under
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Where do you even begin? That's the question I kept asking myself as the credits rolled on All That's Left of You, and I still don't have a clean answer. What I do have is the feeling of something sitting heavy in my chest,
Genre Adventure
★★★ — Theeb (2014)
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