THEEB

Foreign Film Series ~ Theeb

Wednesday, June 15, 2016 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
  • Chief Theater, 813 Lincoln Ave.

The library's free foreign film series continues with an international film festival award-winner from United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan and the United Kingdom, directed by Naji Abu Nowar, screening at the Chief Theater.

"A classic adventure film of the best kind, and one that's rarely seen these days!"
– Variety

"Theeb deals with is nothing less grand than survival; survival on an individual level for the protagonist but also the survival of a culture and a way of life." – The Hollywood Reporter 

It's 1916. While war rages in the Ottoman Empire, Hussein raises his younger brother Theeb ("Wolf") in a traditional Bedouin community that is isolated by the vast, unforgiving desert. The brothers' quiet existence is suddenly interrupted when a British Army officer and his guide ask Hussein to escort them to a water well located along the old pilgrimage route to Mecca. So as not to dishonor his recently deceased father, Hussein agrees to lead them on the long and treacherous journey. The young, mischievous Theeb secretly chases after his brother, but the group soon find themselves trapped amidst threatening terrain riddled with Ottoman mercenaries, Arab revolutionaries, and outcast Bedouin raiders. Naji Abu Nowar's powerful and assured directorial debut, set in the land of Lawrence of Arabia, is a wondrous "Bedouin Western" about a boy who, in order to survive, must become a man and live up to the name his father gave him.

In Arabic with English subtitles.
Run time:  100min.
The free screening includes an award-wining short & a cash bar.