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Theeb [digital videodisc] / Bayt al Shawareb production in association with Noor Pictures ; written by Naji Abdu Nowar, Bassel Ghandour ; director, Naji Abu Nowar.

[New York, New York] : Film Movement, [2016]

Bedouins -- Saudi Arabia -- Hejaz -- Drama.

World War, 1914-1918 -- Drama.

Teenage boys -- Drama.

Motion pictures, Jordanian.

1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

1916. While war rages in the Ottoman Empire, Hussein raises his younger brother Theeb in a traditional Bedouin community that is isolated by the vast, unforgiving desert. The brothers2 quiet existence is suddenly interrupted when a British Army officer and his guide ask Hussein to escort them to a water well located along the old pilgrimage route to Mecca. So as not to dishonor his recently deceased father, Hussein agrees to lead them on the long and treacherous journey.

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