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Five Boys and a Wheel, is a 2016 Jordanian movie, directed by Said Zagha, and starring Ali Suliman, Nadera Omran, Haidar Kfouf. with a runtime of 19 minutes.
Five Boys and a Wheel is a Jordanian short drama film set in the coastal city of Aqaba, adapted into Arabic from Raymond Carver's celebrated short story 'Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarettes.' When a petty squabble breaks out between neighborhood children, a young father is called upon to mediate — but when the parents of both families convene to resolve the matter, what begins as a minor dispute rapidly escalates into something far more charged and revealing. The gathering forces the father to confront the gap between the values he professes and the behavior he actually models. A compact, sharply observed drama that uses a neighborhood conflict as a lens for examining parental identity and moral consistency.
Budget
$20K
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