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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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