The Five O'Clock River
A Luxor ferry captain meets the same passenger every evening at five, each time from a different year of her life.
IXF-AIF-2026-P6W884T738
The story
Captain Samir has crossed the Nile for forty years and trusts only the schedule. At five o'clock, a woman boards with the same ticket but a different age, asking him to carry one promise to shore. Their conversations become a romance across years and a map of a city changing faster than the river.
- Original title
- نهر الساعة الخامسة
- Country / region
- Egypt · Jordan · United Arab Emirates
- Genres
- Romance · Fantasy · Drama
- Language
- Arabic
- Year
- 2027
- Runtime
- 89:00
- Director
- Dina Mansour
Creative process
Director, editor, rights reviewer, Arabic native-language reviewer and MENA cultural consultant, and producer approve creative, legal, and cultural outputs.
Human-led story development, screenplay polish, casting bible, and rights review; Runway Gen-4.5 for primary cinematic plates; Google Veo 3.1 with Flow for physics, camera blocking, and alternate motion passes; Runway Aleph 2.0 for shot-level transformation and continuity fixes; Blender, Houdini, DaVinci Resolve Studio 20, Pro Tools, native-language review, and C2PA export.
- AI participation (source-declared)
- 75%
- Creative method
- Live action with AI
- Format
- Feature film
- Resolution
- 4K
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39:1
- Frame rate
- 24 fps
- Delivery format
- 4K DCP, ProRes 4444 XQ master, H.265 review screener.
- Subtitles
- English · Korean · Thai · French · Spanish · German · Arabic