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Original Film Title: SONGS OF ADAM
Director’s Name: Oday Rasheed
Writer’s Name: Oday Rasheed
Producer: Majed Rasheed
Country of Origin: Iraq
Country of Filming : Iraq
Language: Arabic
Runtime: 97 minutes
Film Description:
In a remote Mesopotamian village on the banks of the Euphrates River, twelve-year-old Adam decides to stop time within himself. Only three people believe in his ability to defy time: Anki, his loyal best friend; Ali, his younger brother; and Iman, his cousin, whose dreams of a future with Adam are shattered by his choice.
As the years pass, the villagers grow suspicious of Adam’s unchanging appearance. When a devastating weevil infestation strikes the crops for the second year in a row, the villagers blame Adam, believing he is cursed. He is imprisoned in an old, isolated barn, where he remains for over twelve years.
In the barn, through a magical blend of innocence and wonder, Adam remains untouched by time. However, the world around him, and those he loves, continue to age. Anki, now his jailer, transforms into the guardian of Adam’s eternal childhood. Adam draws Anki back to his childhood self, reviving the lost days of their friendship, regardless of how much time has passed.
Everyone gets old, except Adam.
Ali watches time slip away, growing increasingly disillusioned as he struggles to reconcile his aging self with the image of the forever-young Adam, while Iman, once filled with dreams of love, tangles time and space on her deathbed.
Realizing that the end of a dream follows the beginning of daylight, Adam witnesses the death of Anki, who has reached the age of eighty. Fulfilling his friend’s last wish, Adam places Anki’s body in a small fishing boat and takes it south across the Euphrates River to the sea.
Alone at the riverbank, Adam listens to the sounds of his eternal childhood, where the boundaries between dream and reality blur.