Date Palm Observatory
An elderly astronomer in Oman uses palm shadows as telescopes when the shadows reveal a comet that modern instruments cannot track.
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The story
Dr. Salma retired before the observatory was privatized, but she still reads shadows in her family's palm grove. Once a year the trees align with a comet that vanished from official data. With her grandson and a skeptical satellite engineer, Salma turns the harvest season into a last chance to warn coastal cities before the sky changes course.
- Original title
- مرصد النخيل
- Country / region
- Egypt · Jordan · United Arab Emirates
- Genres
- Science fiction · Drama
- Language
- Arabic
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 90:00
- Director
- ليلى حداد
Creative process
The director, editor, rights reviewer, Arabic-language reviewer, Middle East and North Africa cultural adviser, and producer approve creative, legal and cultural outputs.
Human-led story development, screenplay polish, casting bible, rights review; Runway Gen-4.5 for core cinematic plates; Google Veo 3.1 Flow for physics, camera placement, and alternate motion paths; Runway Aleph 2.0 for shot transformations and continuity correction; then finishing via Blender, Houdini, DaVinci Resolve Studio 20, Pro Tools, Arabic 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, and H.265 review screener.
- Subtitles
- English · Korean · Thai · French · Spanish · German · Arabic