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Jordan, 2007, 110', 35mm, Color, Arabic
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Director
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Amin Matalqa
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Produced by
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Laith Al-Majali, Amin Matalqa, David Pritchard
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Executive Producers
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Isam Salfiti, Aida Jabaji Matalqa, David Pritchard
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Producers
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Nadine Toukan, Kenneth Kokin, Laith Al-Majali
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Cinematography
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Reinhart Peschke
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Script
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Amin Matalqa
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Production Design
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Gerald Sullivan
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Editor
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Laith Al-Majali
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Costume Design
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Jamila Allaeddin
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Music
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Austin Wintory
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Nadim Sawalha (SYRIANA, THE NATIVITY STORY), Rana Sultan, Hussein Al-Sous, Udey Al-Qiddissi,
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Ghandi Saber, Dina Ra’ad-Yaghnam
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Abu Raed is a lonely janitor at Ammanˇ¦s International Airport. Never having realized his dreams of seeing the world, he experiences it vicariously through books and brief encounters with travellers. Finding a discarded Captainˇ¦s hat in the trash at work one day, he is followed by a neighbourhood boy who spots him wearing it as he walks home. The next morning he wakes up to find a group of neighbourhood children at his door, believing him to be an airline pilot. And thus the friendship begins. Happy for the company and attention, he takes the children to colorful places around the world through his fictional stories and inspires them to believe in their own ambitions. Meanwhile, Abu Raedˇ¦s friendship with Nour, a real female pilot, begins to grow as she deals with her own set of pressures from life in modern Amman.
Captain Abu Raed is the story of everyday people intersecting across social boundaries. It is a story of dreams, friendship, forgiveness, and sacrifice.
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