Captain Abu Raed

Captain Abu Raed Arabic is a 2007 Jordanian Film directed and written by Amin Matalqa. It is the first feature film produced in Jordan in more than 50 years. The Royal Film Commission of Jordan endorsed Captain Abu Raed to be submitted to the 81st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, the first ever submitted by Jordan. The film won awards at numerous film festivals including the Sundance Film Festival, Heartland Film Festival, and the Dubai International Film Festival. It was screened at the Jerusalem International Film Festival in 2008.

An older child, Murad, knows who Abu Raed really is and sets out to prove this to the other children wrong, repeating the phrase People like us dont grow up to be pilots. With some dinars he found, Murad takes the other children on a taxi ride to the airport to show them the truth about Abu Raed. The children are heartbroken at seeing their idol on his hands and knees, scrubbing the floor.It is later shown that Murad had stolen the money from his father Abu Murad, who, drunk after a hard day selling womens clothing on the street, often abused Murads mother, Um Murad. Abu Murad was exceptionally mad about the loss of money and took it out on his wife. ........

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