Spanning a number of different styles and mediums, the short films in this year’s Animation Showcase each bring beauty to difficult stories. These talented filmmakers' use of creative and often fantastical storytelling techniques create engaging, if at times emotional, explorations of heavy themes such as war, displacement and loss.
Trapped in Damascus, surrounded by war, a lonely man becomes increasingly lost in his fantasies of fleeing and the inner dialogues with his dog.
Festivals & Awards:
Filmfest Dresden 2020
Uppsala Intertionala Short Film Festival 2020
Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film
Krakow Film Festival 2021
Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2021
About the Filmmaker:
Jalal Maghout is an animation filmmaker who graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Visual Communication from the University of Damascus in 2010. He worked as a teacher at Damascus University until he left Syria in 2013. He went to Berlin and immediately started working on his animated documentary SULEIMA. The film about a female Syrian opposition activist was screened in many film festivals worldwide. In 2015 he started his master studies in animation directing at Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. “Have a Nice Dog!” is his master graduation film.
- Year2020
- Runtime14 minutes
- LanguageArabic
- CountryGermany
- DirectorJalal Maghout
- ScreenwriterJalal Maghout
- ProducerKarsten Matern
- CastHusam Chadat, Eman Dwagy, Bassam Hashem
- Sound DesignOscar Zöllner
- MusicDascha Dauenhauer
Spanning a number of different styles and mediums, the short films in this year’s Animation Showcase each bring beauty to difficult stories. These talented filmmakers' use of creative and often fantastical storytelling techniques create engaging, if at times emotional, explorations of heavy themes such as war, displacement and loss.
Trapped in Damascus, surrounded by war, a lonely man becomes increasingly lost in his fantasies of fleeing and the inner dialogues with his dog.
Festivals & Awards:
Filmfest Dresden 2020
Uppsala Intertionala Short Film Festival 2020
Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film
Krakow Film Festival 2021
Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2021
About the Filmmaker:
Jalal Maghout is an animation filmmaker who graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Visual Communication from the University of Damascus in 2010. He worked as a teacher at Damascus University until he left Syria in 2013. He went to Berlin and immediately started working on his animated documentary SULEIMA. The film about a female Syrian opposition activist was screened in many film festivals worldwide. In 2015 he started his master studies in animation directing at Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. “Have a Nice Dog!” is his master graduation film.
- Year2020
- Runtime14 minutes
- LanguageArabic
- CountryGermany
- DirectorJalal Maghout
- ScreenwriterJalal Maghout
- ProducerKarsten Matern
- CastHusam Chadat, Eman Dwagy, Bassam Hashem
- Sound DesignOscar Zöllner
- MusicDascha Dauenhauer