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Nights of the Jackal, The
[Layali Ibn Awa]
 
 
Nights of the Jackal, The

Type:
Feature Film

Director:
Abdulatif Abdulhamid

Year:
1990

Time:
104 minutes

Language:
Arabic with English subtitles
    "An engrossing story of a foolish peasant patriarch ... Westernization, war with Israel and the plunging price of tomatoes take their toll as he watches his children go their own way." —John Hartl, Seattle Times

Set in a small Syrian village, The Nights of the Jackal chronicles the effects of Westernization and war on traditional family life.

Abu Kamel is the head of a peasant family and the absolute ruler of his little kingdom. His only fear is the pack of jackals that haunts the village at night, keeping him awake with their howling. Whistling keeps the jackals at bay, but Abu's wife is the only one in the family who can produce the high-pitched sound.

As the jackals continue to draw closer each night, Abu Kamel's dominion over his household slowly begins to crack and crumble.

This film is available with a Digital Site License (DSL), which allows colleges, universities, or libraries to encode, locally host, and stream the film to their community on a closed, password-protected system.

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This film is available from AFD for public screenings and television broadcast. For information regarding rental rates and formats, please contact [email protected] for institutional/non-theatrical screenings, or [email protected] for theatrical, festival, television, or other bookings.

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