A Saudi filmmaker has produced a short movie highlighting the recent attacks by Daesh members on five mosques in the Kingdom, which resulted in the injury and death of several people.
The four-minute production, entitled “Raana Alaa Goloubhem” or “Their Stained Hearts,” was directed by Rakan Al-Harbi with a modest budget of only $1,100, according to a report in a local publication on Monday.
Al-Harbi’s story begins in a museum set up specifically to display the bodies of the suicide bombers. When a visitor arrives, the museum’s supervisor takes him on a tour, describing what carnage each person had wrought.
The visitor travels back in time to the scene of one attack, where he speaks with a bomber, who initially appears confident about his decision, hesitant as he is about to detonate his explosives, and then remorseful after he carries out the bombing.
Al-Harbi said he used this method to convey to viewers the horrific nature of the attacks, and for viewers to empathize with the victims. “The film was compressed into four minutes because I wanted to deliver an intense message. We could have extended it to 20 minutes, but you really only need 3 to 7 minutes. The rest is fluff,” he said.
He said there have been many dramas about the Daesh terrorist group produced in the Gulf region, but his movie was different because of the way the message was delivered. The film is based on a story written by Majid Al-Salem. It has been entered along with 70 other productions into a contest organized by the Saudi Arabian Society for Culture and Arts in Dammam.
