Inshallah a Boy (2023) on Netflix
Her husband dies suddenly, and Nawal must fight for her home and the inheritance under Jordan's law, which favors sons. She has a daughter and no son.
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Plot summary
Nawal works and raises her daughter in Jordan. When her husband dies suddenly, the country's inheritance law gives his family the claim to everything she owns, because she bore him no son. Her daughter is her only child, and the home they live in is among what the family could take. To keep it, Nawal tells her husband's relatives that she is pregnant.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Inshallah a Boy (2023)
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- While the film was still in production, Amjad Al Rasheed's Inshallah a Boy won the Biennale di Venezia Prize in the Final Cut program for works in progress at the 79th Venice International Film Festival.
- Director Amjad Al Rasheed wrote the screenplay with Delphine Agut and Rula Nasser, drawing in part on the real-life experiences of a relative of Al Rasheed's.
