A young Bedouin boy uses his nascent survival skills to outwit potential enemies in “Theeb,” a classic adventure film of the best kind, and one that’s rarely seen these days. Naji Abu Nowar’s ...

If you were a preadolescent boy stranded in the desert with a sinister grown-up stranger on whom you depended for your survival, what would you do? That question, posed in the spellbinding Jordanian ...

Theeb. Wolf. “(In Bedouin culture,) if someone calls you a wolf, you have earned their respect as a man of daring and cunning, a person who can achieve impossible feats,” Naji Abu Nowar, director of ...

It’s 1916, and the great Ottoman Empire is fraying around the edges. World War I has created cracks in the lands ruled by the Ottomans, and the British have set their sights on the wide and supposedly ...

A disarmingly complex boyhood adventure with no shortage of tension or harsh beauty, “Theeb” marks a winning debut feature for co-writer and director Naji Abu Nowar. Set in the Ottoman Empire in 1916, ...

“Theeb” is about the intersection of tradition and progress, the allure of the unknown and the bonds of family. All that and it’s a pretty good action yarn, as well. Theeb (an amazing Jacir Eid ...

The skillfully mounted “Theeb” is a spaghetti Western that comes from an unlikely place — Jordan — and features an even more unlikely hero: a young Bedouin boy who must use his wiles to survive in the ...

Reporting from AMMAN, Jordan — In the Oscar-nominated Jordanian film “Theeb,” the eponymous character, a young boy still untutored in the ways of the desert, is stranded in a particularly hostile ...

Watch a film clip from ‘Theeb,’ starring Jacir Eid Al-Hwietat, Hussein Salameh Al-Sweilhiyeen and Hassan Mutlag Al-Maraiyeh. Photo: Film Movement “Theeb,” the official Jordanian submission for the ...

One would expect a foreign film like Theeb to provide the audience with some sort of historical backdrop in order to contextualize a niche storyline. However, besides the minimal information that we ...