Inshallah A Boy

Original title: Inshallah walad
Genre: Drama
Director: Amjad Al Rasheed
Country: Jordan, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt
Year of production: 2023
Czas: 113 min

Awards and nominations:
2023 Cannes Film Festival: Rail d’Or Award and Gan Foundation Award
2023 Red Sea International Film Festival: Best Actress – Mouna Hawa
2023 Camerimage: Golden Frog in Directors' Debuts Competition
2023 Thessaloniki Film Festival: Best Actress – Mouna Hawa
2023 Asia Pacific Screen Awards: Best Actress – Mouna Hawa

Nawal’s husband death marks the beginning of the woman’s problems. According to inheritance laws, a woman can’t inherit anything until she gives birth to a son. And Nawal has only a daughter. She decides to pretend she’s pregnant to deceive a judge and her brother-in-law. She can keep up the lie only for so long, though: time will eventually reveal the truth, even if Nawal manages to fake her pregnancy test. Nawal doesn’t give up and fights for herself and her daughter while supporting her wealthy employer’s daughter in her own private drama. Amjad Al Rasheed’s feature directorial debut had its premiere during the Critics’ Week in Cannes. It’s a slow burner built on delicate psychological nuances, thus resembling the works of Iranian masters, particularly Asghar Farhadi and the duet Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha (“Ballad of a White Cow” and “My Favourite Cake”). “Inshallah A Boy” with laboratory precision depicts the situation where deceased or unborn men have more rights than living and breathing women.

Author: Ola Salwa

Director:
Amjad Al Rasheed – Jordanian director and screenwriter. He participated in the prestigious Talent Campus workshops organised for young filmmakers by Berlin Film Festival. He was selected by “Screen International” as “Arab Star of Tomorrow”.

   subtitles in Polish and English