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Amjad Al Rasheed’s directorial debut was also the first Jordanian film to be screened at the Cannes film festival last year. “Inshallah a Boy” focuses on a courageous mother and widow who’s constrained by the patriarchal society she lives in. Amjad joins us in the studio to talk about making a film that addresses sensitive topics like inheritance and abortion, and how securing regional funding for his feature was a win for the nascent Jordanian film industry.
We also check out Terence Davies’ final film “Benediction”, which revisits a chapter in the life of World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon.
And critic Lisa Nesselson tells us why “One Life”, starring Anthony Hopkins as the “British Schindler” Nicholas Winton, makes for such a moving movie experience.