Name: Blue
Genre: Short, Drama
Released: 2022-04-20
Duration: 5 min
Cast: Hussain Al-Sharqi, Nadia Almallah, Ali Meshaal

Arabic-language cinema spans many regions, with Egypt pioneering popular musicals and melodramas, while Lebanon, Palestine, and North Africa use film as a medium for political expression and memory. Collectively, it expresses Arab identity onscreen and has influenced storytelling across the Middle East.

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The drama genre is a broad category that features stories portraying human experiences, emotions, conflicts, and relationships in a realistic and emotionally impactful way. Dramas delve into the complexities of human life, often exploring themes of love, loss, morality, societal issues, personal growth, with the aim to evoke an emotional response from the audience by presenting relatable and thought-provoking stories.

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The short form refers to creative works characterized by their brevity and concise storytelling. Unlike full-length feature films, short films have a running time of less than 45 minutes, while TV shorts have a running time of less than 22 minutes.

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Two elderly people talk about time and memory in a quiet philosophical manner, they turn into young with the sequence of conversations and the rise of their questions. They go back in time more in to two children as a question appears about time and an attempt to breakthrough.

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Hussain Al-Sharqi and Ruqaya Sadeq in Blue (2022)

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Ammar Zainal, Mohammed Alnabhan, Nadia Almallah, Ali Meshaal, Hussain Al-Sharqi, Ruqaya Sadeq, Hussain Foolath, and Mohamed Murbati in Blue (2022)

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