THE MAN WHO STUMBLED BY HIS WORDS
Genre
Drama and Psychodrama
Running time
22 minutes
Year
2025
Language
Arabic
Subtitle
English
Country
Saudi Arabia
Director
Mubarak Al-Zawba
Bio
Producer
Batool Al Arfah
Cast
Thamer Alharbi, Almaha Al-Othman, Salman Alaboudi
Scriptwriter
Mubarak Al-Zawba
Naif, a celebrated novelist in his late forties, isolates himself in search of a cure for his writer’s block, but what begins as a creative struggle soon unravels into a deeper crisis of memory, identity and time itself, trapping him between what was and what could still be.
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