DESK OF NIMA FAKHRARA
(Notes, drafts, and films in progress.)



NOOR (A Creature Story) - (in development)
Sci-Fi Drama / Creature Film - Beasts of the Southern Wild, Monsters (2010), Pan's Labyrinth

In a refugee camp on the edge of a militarized exclusion zone, a seventeen-year-old girl who has made herself into a weapon — all angles, no softness, rebar in her fist — watches her eleven-year-old brother sneak through a gap in the fence and come back carrying something impossible: a wounded, bioluminescent infant creature whose light shifts like language and whose every pulse is a beacon calling something colossal across the dark. Leyla wants to give it back. Sami names her. Fatima, the camp schoolteacher who lost her village to the first attack, tells them the truth — the Mother is already coming, and she will flatten everything between herself and her child. When the camp is destroyed and the military seizes Noor to use as bait, the journey to return her becomes a race through minefields, ruins, and a commander's grief-forged vendetta — and costs Leyla every person she has left. NOOR is a war-zone fairy tale about what it means to protect something you can't keep, to choose mercy inside machinery built for violence, and to finish the story someone you loved didn't live to tell.

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