"Captain Abu Raed" excellent movie!

[Valley Oak]

"Captain Abu Raed" is an excellent movie. I saw this at home with my family and we all liked it. You can rent it at your local video store:

AWARDS:

2008 Sundance Film Festival
Grand Jury Prize - World Cinema - Dramatic

2008 Seattle International Film Festival
Best Director Golden Space Needle Award - Amin Matalqa

2008 Newport Beach Film Festival
Jury Award - Best Actor - Nadim Sawalha
Jury Award - Best Actress - Rana Sultan

2008 Heartland Film Festival
Crystal Heart Award - Feature Film
Grand Prize for Dramatic Feature

2007 Dubai International Film Festival
Muhr Award - Best Actor: Nadim Sawalha

2008 Durban International Film Festival
Best First Feature Film

[sharingwisdom]

Can you say more about it? I also watched your suggesting of Flame and Citron...whoa!...intense thriller.


"Captain Abu Raed" is an excellent movie. I saw this at home with my family and we all liked it. You can rent it at your local video store:

AWARDS:

2008 Sundance Film Festival
Grand Jury Prize - World Cinema - Dramatic

2008 Seattle International Film Festival
Best Director Golden Space Needle Award - Amin Matalqa

2008 Newport Beach Film Festival
Jury Award - Best Actor - Nadim Sawalha
Jury Award - Best Actress - Rana Sultan

2008 Heartland Film Festival
Crystal Heart Award - Feature Film
Grand Prize for Dramatic Feature

2007 Dubai International Film Festival
Muhr Award - Best Actor: Nadim Sawalha

2008 Durban International Film Festival
Best First Feature Film

[Valley Oak]

When I tried explaining the movie to my 16 year old daughter, she retorted afterwards, "Your description makes me not want to see the movie." However, after we saw it she said she liked it.

So, aside from giving away what the movie is about (which wouldn't be any fun), I greatly fear, based on personal experience as you can see, revealing the storyline. I will say this; the film is very, very low budget, which can actually serve as an incentive because there are no special effects to make you go ooooh, aaaaw. Not a single shot is fired in the entire movie! Can you believe that? I didn't know it was possible to see a good movie these days without at least one explosion and/or bullets flying around.

It is simple, down to earth, realistic movie about people's lives. The real thing, not James Bond, Brangelina, or anything like that. And because the movie is so realistic and revealing about real people, that is probably why it is so good and won 8 awards from 6 different film festivals, listed below.

Hope this helps.
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2008 Sundance Film Festival
Grand Jury Prize - World Cinema - Dramatic

2008 Seattle International Film Festival
Best Director Golden Space Needle Award - Amin Matalqa

2008 Newport Beach Film Festival
Jury Award - Best Actor - Nadim Sawalha
Jury Award - Best Actress - Rana Sultan

2008 Heartland Film Festival
Crystal Heart Award - Feature Film
Grand Prize for Dramatic Feature

2007 Dubai International Film Festival
Muhr Award - Best Actor: Nadim Sawalha

2008 Durban International Film Festival
Best First Feature Film


Can you say more about it? I also watched your suggesting of Flame and Citron...whoa!...intense thriller.

[natalie]

I really liked this movie as well. I saw it in a theater when it first came out and I remember it well.