Inshallah a Boy (2023)

Original title

إن شاء الله ولد

Directed by

Amjad Al-Rasheed

Genre

drama film

Country

Jordan

Runtime

1h 53m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A widowed woman in Jordan faces losing everything under inheritance laws that favor sons. To keep her home and protect her daughter, she pretends to be pregnant with a boy.

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What happens

Inshallah a Boy (Arabic: إن شاء الله ولد, romanized: ʾIn shāʾ Allāh walad) is a 2023 drama film directed by Amjad Al Rasheed. A coproduction of companies from Jordan, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt, the film stars Mouna Hawa as Nawal, a recently widowed woman who must pretend to be pregnant in order to protect herself and her daughter from Jordan's patriarchal inheritance laws, which would permit her husband's family to take everything she owned, leaving Nawal with nothing, solely because she did not bear him a son. The cast also includes Haitham Alomari, Yumna Marwan, Salwa Nakkara, Mohammed Al Jizawi, Eslam Al-Awadi, Seleena Rababah, Siranoush Sultanian, Serene Huleileh, Mohammad Suleiman, Mona Shehabi, Areej Dababneh, Niveen Haddadeen, Assaf al Rousan, Nahla Al-Moghrabi, Ala Al-Riyahi and Mohammad Wasfi. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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