City Without Shadows
A forensic photographer investigates a Gulf city where nobody casts a shadow except the missing man she was hired to find.
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The story
In a city built to defeat heat, noon arrives without shadows. The phenomenon is treated as a civic miracle until photographer Rima captures one impossible shadow crossing an empty plaza. The shape belongs to a missing dissident, and following it means exposing a daylight crime everyone can see but nobody can prove.
- Original title
- مدينة بلا ظل
- Country / region
- United Arab Emirates · Lebanon
- Genres
- Thriller · Drama
- Language
- Arabic
- Year
- 2027
- Runtime
- 92:00
- Director
- Omar Nassar
Creative process
Director, editor, rights reviewer, and native-language reviewer approve creative, legal, and cultural outputs.
Human-led concept, script, casting bible, and rights review; Runway Gen-4.5 for primary cinematic video plates; Google Veo 3.1 with Flow for physics, camera, and alternate motion passes; Runway Aleph 2.0 for shot-level revisions; Blender and Resolve finishing with human editorial approval, subtitle 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