When asked a question on politics, late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish once answered: “I write about love to expose the conditions that don’t allow me to write about love.” In Two Travellers to a River Palestinian actress Manal Khader recites such a poem by Mahmoud Darwish: a concise reflection on how things could have been.
Two Travellers to a River
2018, Belgium, digital video,
1min24, color, Arabic, stereo
directed by
Johan Grimonprez
poem written by
Mahmoud Darwish
read by
Manal Khader
courtesy of Shadow World Productions LLC
director of photography
Nicole Mackinlay Hahn
sound recording
Rayan Obeidine
music score
Karsten Fundal
produced by
Daan Milius
for zap-o-matik
co-produced by
the Arts Research Fund of
University of College Ghent
Poetry extracts by
Mahmoud Darwish:
Two Travellers to a River and Things Would Be Different
(A River Dies of Thirst, Saqi Books 2009)