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A young Bedouin poet and his sister’s quiet desert life is disrupted when a wounded tribesman returns to camp.
Labid, a young Bedouin, roams the desert with his sister Arbad. When the vast landscape inspires poetry in him, he shares his verses with her by the fire. But the world around them begins to shift when a wounded tribesman returns to camp one afternoon. Across this changing desert, a strange figure appears, whose riddles echo truths Labid cannot yet name.

Credits

Director
Nadia Al-Khater
Screenwriter
Nadia Al-Khater
Producer
Qatari Film Fund
Cinematographer
Aymerick Pilarski
Editor
Abdul Jabbar Maki
Sound
Falah Hannoun, Séverin Favriau

About the Director

Nadia Al-Khater
Nadia Al-Khater is a Qatari filmmaker drawn to innovative storytelling from an Arab perspective. Her early passion for filmmaking inspired her to direct after graduating from Georgetown University. She wrote and directed the short drama-thriller ‘This Is Not a Drill’ (2019) with The Film House. Her photograph, Djurgården 10, has been exhibited at GroundSeeSaw in Seoul, South Korea, and Tokyo, Japa
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