The movie Al-Hara seizes new success.. "The New York Times" ranks it among the 5 best films

The Jordanian movie "Al-Hara" has achieved a fruitful new success in the world, as it was chosen by the "New York Times" newspaper to be among the list of the 5 best films available on international digital broadcasting platforms.

Thus, "Al-Hara" is the only Arab film chosen by the editor, "Devica Gerrish," and described it as "a carefully drawn painting of the struggling poor class in Amman, and all the twists in the events are unexpected."

The movie “Al-Hara” also entered the Top Ten list in Netflix Saudi Arabia and Lebanon, as it was among the most searched Arab list on Google for several days, in addition to that since its launch on the “Netflix” platform at the beginning of this year, Al-Hara entered the list of most watched in Jordan for seven weeks on Most of them were in first place.

The film witnessed a successful screening trip, whether in festivals or commercially, in more than 20 countries around the world. It was launched commercially in four Arab countries, namely Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, and won the Audience Award and a special mention from the Malmö Arab Film Festival in Sweden, and the Grand Jury Prize from the First International Film Festival in Annunay, France, and was nominated for 4 awards in the Critics Awards for Arab films that Presented by the Arab Cinema Center on the sidelines of the current edition of the Cannes Film Festival.

The events of the film take place in a neighborhood ruled by gossip and violence in East Amman, where a deceitful young man does the impossible to be with his beloved, but her mother stands in the way of completing their story, and when a blackmailer's camera captures a video clip of them in an intimate situation, the mother secretly resorts to a gang to put an end to what happened. It happens, but things don't go as planned.

Al-Hara was written and directed by Basil Ghandour, starring Munther Rayahna, Imad Azmy, Baraka Rahmani, Maysa Abdel-Hadi, Nadira Omran and Nadim Rimawi. It is produced by Beit Al-Shawareb (Youssef Abdelnabi), The Imaginarium Films (Rola Nasser) and Lagoonie Film Production (Shahinaz Al-Akkad) as co-producer. MAD Solutions is responsible for the Arab distribution of the film, while the French company, Elle Driver, is responsible for sales in the rest of the world.