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Inshallah Walad (2023)

Drama | 113 minutes
3,54 26 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 113 minuten

Alternative titles: Inshallah a Boy / إن شاء الله ولد

Country: Jordan / France / Saudi Arabia / Qatar

Directed by: Amjad Al-Rasheed

Stars: Mouna Hawa, Hitham Omari and Salwa Nakkara

IMDb score: 7,2 (1.948)

Releasedate: 18 May 2023

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Inshallah Walad plot

Jordanian law is clear: if a woman's husband dies and she has no son, the family of the deceased is entitled to a portion of her estate. That's exactly what happens to Nawal; her husband has just died when she becomes embroiled in a legal battle with her brother-in-law Rifqi, who claims to receive money from his brother and now from her. If she were to lose, it would have far-reaching consequences for her and her daughter. In desperation, she claims to be pregnant – which gives her at least nine months respite.

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BBarbie

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The bonus of watching films from “unknown” film countries is that you run the risk of being confronted with traditions and customs that are at odds with your own experience. This also applies to this film from Jordan about a woman (with child) who becomes a plaything in an inheritance issue after the unexpected death of her husband. A remarkable debut by the Jordanian director Amjad Al-Rasheed with a varied role by the Palestinian actress Mouna Hawa (Bar Bahar).

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De filosoof

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This film shows how women are victims of brutal oppression under Jordanian sharia-based law. It chooses both a poor, pious woman who, after the death of her husband, is in danger of losing her house, car and daughter unless she turns out to be pregnant with a son, and a rich, modern woman who has an unwanted pregnancy and wants an abortion, so that it becomes clear made sure that no woman escapes patriarchy under the Sharia or in Jordan. Both distraught women are forced to break the law in an attempt to save their lives and cling to each other (with the rich woman's telling suggestion that in the eyes of Allah the destruction of their lives may be an even greater sin than what they as women are all not allowed), although even that doesn't seem to help. The idea of the film is not bad, but the feminist message dominates at the expense of the story that does not really want to be exciting or fascinating and mainly shows the legal procedures with which women are placed in an unequal position and kept dependent on men.

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mrklm

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Nawal [Mouna Hawa] and Adnan [Mohammad Suleiman] have a daughter [Seleena Rababah] and are trying to have another child. When Adnan suddenly dies, his brother Rifqi [Hatiham Alomari] reports shortly after the funeral to say that Adnan had owed him a debt. Jordanian law also gives him the right to claim his deceased brother's assets and share them with his sisters, because there is no male heir. That means Nawal and her daughter will lose their apartment… unless she can prove she's pregnant with a boy! And so Nawal tries to deceive her family. Hawa stars in this social drama that exposes the injustice and absurdism of paternalistic legislation.

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