Death shows up uninvited. The Writer has OTHER plans.
Based on a passage from The Mural by the poet Mahmoud Darwish, the film depicts a scene of an encounter between The Writer and Death, where the other came to seize the soul of The Writer, who refused to let his soul surrender to Death easily.
Acting
Dabwan's wordless defiance carries entire runtime
Direction
Mashkoor stretches 14 minutes into eternity
Score
Japanese music choices that shouldn't work but DO
Director
Ammar Mashkoor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mashkoor adapts only 12 lines of Darwish's 4,000-line poem, treating each word as a scene.
Darwish wrote 'The Mural' after his own near-death experience in 1998; this film closes the loop on a poet who spent decades arguing with mortality.
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