Original Title: ليل (Layl)
Category: Animated Short
Length: 16 minutes
Animation Technique: Stop Motion, Puppet Animation
Genre: Drama
Director, Writer: Ahmad Saleh
Producer: Jessica Neubauer, Saleh Saleh, Fabian Driehorst
Companies: ses-Studio, Fabian&Fred
Funding: Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Filmstiftung NRW, BKM, Doha Film Institute
Countries: Germany, Qatar, Jordan, Palestine
Night has to trick the mother of the missing child into sleeping to save her soul.
FESTIVALS
2023 Short Shorts & Asia Film Festival
2023 Athens Ohio Film Festival
2023 Glasgow Short Film Festival
2023 Nepal Film Festival
2023 Maoriland Film Festival
2023 BIPOC Animation Festival - Best Animation
2023 Human Screen Film Festival - Best Short
2022 Tous Courts Aix-en-Provence
2022 Arab Film Festival
2022 Listapad Minsk Film Festival - Animation for Peace Award
2022 Abitibi-Témiscamingue Film Festival
2022 imagineNATIVE - Sun Jury Award
2022 Linea d'Ombra Festival - Audience Award
2022 Palestine Refugee Film Festival - Best Animation
2022 Big Cartoon
2022 REX Animation Festival
2022 Chicago International Film Festival
2022 Tirana Film Festival
2022 Fantastic Fest
2022 Toronto Palestine Film Festival
2022 Festival Stop Motion Montreal
2022 Cinefest Miskolc
2022 BLON Animation Festival
2022 Split Film Festival
2022 Imaginaria
2022 Animist - Special Mention
2022 NeMaf Seoul ALT Film Festival - Best Glocal ALT Art
2022 HollyShorts
2022 BlackStar Film Festival
2022 Guanajuato Film Festival
2022 Gimli Film Festival
2022 Anibar
2022 Palm Springs ShortFest
2022 Huesca Film Festival
2022 Wairoa Maori Film Festival
2022 Diaspora Film Festival Incheon
2022 Malmö Arab Film Festival - Special Mention
2022 ITFS Stuttgart Animation Festival
2022 Radio City Film Festival
2022 Busan Short Film Festival
2022 ALFILM Berlin
2022 Emerging Lens Cultural Film Festival - Best Animation
2022 Filmfest Bremen
2022 Kwetu Animation Film Festival - Special Mention
2022 AmDocs - Best Animation
2022 GLAS Animation Festival
2022 Filmfest Dresden - Golden Horseman
2022 Ashland Independent Film Festival
2022 Festival REGARD - Best Animation
2022 Animac Lleida
2022 Premiers Plans Anger Film Festival
2021 Animax Skopje - Bronze Brick
2021 Karama Human Rights Film Festival - Best Animation
2021 Animateka
2021 Ale Kino! Young Audience Festival
2021 Torino Film Festival - Special Jury Award
2021 Foyle Film Festival
2021 PÖFF - Tallinn Black Nights
2021 Zinebi Bilbao Film Festival
2021 Ajyal Film Festival
2021 Cork Film Festival
2021 Palestine Cinema Days - Special Mention
2021 Hofer Filmtage
2021 El Gouna Film Festival
2021 Film Fest Gent
2021 Locarno Film Festival