Event

Theeb

Jan 15 - Jan 17, 2016

(Jani Abu Nowar, 2014, United Arab Emirates, Quatar, Jordan and United Kingdom, DCP, 100 min)

Friday, Jan 15 at 08:00PM
Saturday, Jan 16 at 03:30PM
Saturday, Jan 16 at 08:00PM
Sunday, Jan 17 at 03:30PM
Sunday, Jan 17 at 08:00PM

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.