Night

Germany, Qatar, Jordan, Palestine | 2021 | 16 min | Animation The dust of war keeps the eyes sleepless. Night brings peace and sleep to all the people in the broken town. Only the eyes of the mother of the missing child stay resilient. Night has to trick her into sleeping to save her soul. A film by Ahmad Saleh Ahmad Saleh is an academy award winner, writer, director and art director, with a unique voice in storytelling. Inspired by the stories he witnessed while studying his Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering in the Westbank, Ahmad wrote a short stories collection which eventually was one of the winners of the Young Writers Award in Palestine. Winning that award encouraged him to quit his Engineering career to pursue a career in writing, film directing and live-storytelling on stage.