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The Dam, is a 2023 Lebanese play, directed by Ali Cherri, and starring Maher El Khair, Mudathir Musa, Santino Aguer Ding. with a runtime of 84 minutes.
The Dam is a Sudanese drama film set against the backdrop of the Sudanese revolution. Maher works at a traditional brickyard on the banks of the Nile, but each evening he slips away into the desert to secretly erect a mysterious structure made of mud. Despite a troubling wound in his lower back that grows worse with each passing day, Maher persists in his solitary labor with quiet, stubborn determination. As the people of Sudan rise to demand freedom in the streets above, his mud creation slowly begins to take on a life of its own. The film weaves together the political and the mythical, using Maher's enigmatic project as a powerful metaphor for collective longing, endurance, and the human drive to build meaning in uncertain times.
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