Night
Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage
Ahmad Saleh / Short Narrative / Palestine, Jordan, Germany, Qatar / 2019 / 11 min / Original Language: Arabic / Interests: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Synopsis
While searching for sleepless souls, a storyteller finds a woman standing in front of her door, waiting. Her son disappeared years ago and she has been awake ever since. After each sunset, Night, a girl in a long black dress, knocks on the woman’s door, bringing back the son into his mother’s arms. As the daylight starts coming through the windows, the girl and the son disappear. Filled with hesitation, the storyteller tells the woman a story that will make her cry out her hope and fall asleep.
Credits
- Director
- Ahmad Saleh
- Screenwriter
- Ahmad Saleh
- Producer
- Saleh Saleh
- Production Company
- ses-studio
About the Director
Ahmad Saleh is a writer/director based in Germany. ‘House’ (2012), his first short film, was made while obtaining his Master of Digital Media degree from the University of the Arts Bremen. The film earned several important international awards. Recently, Saleh completed another Master’s degree in Film at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, for which he wrote and directed two short films and began writing his first feature. ‘Ayny’ (2016), his graduation, won a Student Academy Award in the foreign animation category.