Captain Abu Raed (2008)
Abu Raed is a lonely janitor at Amman’s International Airport in Jordan. Although he works in a place where people come and go, he has never left Jordan. But he does dream of traveling the world – he experiences it vicariously through books and brief encounters with travelers. Finding a discarded pilot’s hat in the trash at work one day, he is followed by a neighborhood boy who spots him wearing it as he walks home. The next morning he wakes up to find a group of neighborhood children at his door, believing him to be an airline pilot. They beg him to recount his adventures, 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.
Winner of Audience Award for World Cinema – Dramatic at Sundance Film Festival, Audience Award for Best Director at Portland International Film Festival, and Muhr Award for Best Actor at Dubai International Film Festival.
“A humanistic triumph…a substantial, deeply moving film” – The Hollywood Reporter
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