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The movie “Daughters of Abd al-Rahman” caused a sensation on communication platforms after it presented “bold” topics that included insults and profanity. It also achieved critical success and won 4 awards presented by the audience in 4 international festivals: the Contemporary Middle Eastern Cinema and Culture Festival in Florence. And the Espinho Film Festival for new directors and first works in Portugal, and the Arab Film Festival in San Diego, America, in addition to the Cairo International Film Festival, where it witnessed its world premiere.

The Jordanian film sparked a great controversy in the Arab and Jordanian press in particular, as “Daughters of Abd al-Rahman”, directed and written by Zaid Abu Hamdan, penetrates closed homes and explores family relationships whose owners are keen to keep them behind the walls, because their societal culture and inherited customs do not allow any information to be leaked outside the framework. Single family.

The film revolves around 4 sisters, each of whom has a story, who have different tendencies, temperaments, and life philosophy, to the point of contradiction, and their ways of dealing with others are characterized by a lack of respect, and this makes their relationship with each other fluctuate between ebbs and flows.

According to the sequence of events that were filmed in one of the poor neighborhoods of Amman, the eldest daughter (actress Farah Bseiso) preferred to live with and serve her father, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, out of gratitude for the passion of fatherhood, at the expense of her future and dreams as a girl who dreams of a lover, a husband, and the passion of motherhood, while the share of the second was (Saba). Mubarak) marrying a religiously strict man (actor Ahmed Sorour), with whom she gave birth, and after a while she asked for a divorce, but her father (actor and director Khaled Al-Tarifi) was harsh in responding to her desire for separation: “Come cut off in Shawwal, and do not return to me divorced.”

This, of course, reflects the dark image of divorced women - as seen by the creators of the work - and people's general view of the divorced woman who "lives as a morsel in the mouths of near and far," and they consider any movement against her and surround her with gossip, unfairly and unfairly.

The heroines of the movie, Girls of Abdel Rahman (social networking sites)

And the third daughter (actress Hanan El-Helou) is married to a rich man, but their relationship is turbulent and irregular, which turns her dream of having children into a nightmare, so she tries to escape her misery by staying up late at nightclubs.

As for the fourth (actress Maryam Al-Basha), she immigrated with a strange man to Dubai, where she lived with him in one house under the pretext of "cohabitation". and exotic.

The film, as its director and writer, Zaid Abu Hamdan, told the media, represents "a realistic picture of what happened between his mother and her sisters, and applies to many Jordanian families. The estrangement between the sisters exists and may reach the point of estrangement, but some do not justify artistically proclaiming it. And they ignore that many Some of the words and hints were used on our stages and were met with loud laughter,” noting that the film took 9 years to shoot.

Despite the state of disharmony between the sisters, they meet in the search for the missing father, overcoming the lack of harmony.

This is consistent with the popular saying that "the father or the mother brings together and does not separate."

The film represents a dramatic treatment of the issue of women in the seventh art, which may not appeal to some people, especially with regard to the dialogue between the sisters and their use of vocabulary that is “not suitable for public taste”, while the filmmakers justify that it is frequently repeated on the ground.

New vision

Film critic Najeh Hassan describes "Banat Abd al-Rahman" as a new vision in Jordanian cinema.

Hassan adds - to Al-Jazeera Net - that the cinema audience interacted with the film, which depicts the differences between the sisters, and that some of the vocabulary or phrases that were mentioned in the words of its heroes went out of the ordinary for the local viewer who watched the TV drama or watched the movie through his own device, but it is not of importance to the recipient. Which he saw in the movie theater or in cultural events such as festivals.

From his point of view, the platforms play the role of screens in the home, and words are often circulated that offend the modesty of the moving family, while the viewer goes to the cinema and pays an entrance ticket with warnings that the film is directed to specific ages.

Hassan sees no justification for preventing the film from being shown in Jordanian cinemas, "but filmmakers must understand the social environment and ensure that it is not heroic to use words that offend the audience's modesty, and it would have been better to replace them by employing cinematic and dramatic vocabulary without addressing the audience directly with vulgar terms." ".

Cinema storms the unspoken

Critic Majdi al-Tal describes "Abd al-Rahman's Girls" as an advanced step towards making Jordanian cinema that deals with deep social issues, especially those that are kept silent or that society tries to avoid highlighting or acknowledging their existence.

Some critics consider the film an advanced step towards a Jordanian cinema industry that deals with deep social issues (Al-Jazeera)

He tells Al-Jazeera Net, "In our Arab societies in general and Jordanian ones in particular, there are many issues that fall within the framework of the three forbidden taboos (politics, religion and sex), as well as taboos made by society to avoid digging into old or new issues and problems, as if we live in the utopia."

He believes that television drama should convey reality with a slight difference from the cinema that the viewer goes to by choice, "The silver screen (television) is watched by all family members, and here the customs and values ​​of society must be taken into account. As for the cinema, the person chooses what he wants to watch." As he said.