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’A World Unscripted’: Inside the Amman Film Festival With Its Distinctive Mission

Focusing exclusively on first-time features and shorts, the Amman Festival will honor Jim Sheridan and five short documentaries made inside Gaza.

Legendary Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan(“In the Name of the Father,” “My Left Foot”) will be honored and several titles––also including “Michael Collins,” by Neil Jordan, Ken Loach’s “The Wind That Shakes the Barley” and “The Banshees of Inisherin” by Martin McDonagh––will screen as part of a curated cross-cultural program. A few titles stand out as especially anticipated, including “Simsim,” a Jordanian production set in the 1980s tells the story of a young boy who works in a cemetery in Amman but dreams of greener pastures. This year, that spirit takes many forms, from a Syrian filmmaker chronicling exile through fiction in “Yunan,” which played Berlin main competition), to a Jordanian debut about migration and masculinity, Cannes Critics’ Week double winner, “Inshallah a Boy.”

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