Night
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.
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