This program spotlights the recent conflicts in the Arab world with a powerful collection of animated shorts on war, peace, revolution, and dictatorship. We’ll take you on a journey through the political and social developments of the past five years, including grim and terrifying films on loss, and oppression, from countries such as Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon, but also hopeful and idealistic films. Now more topical than ever, these voices from the Arab world deserve to take the stage at KLIK!, highlighting and echoing the hopes and struggles of so many around the world.

This program screened as part of KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2015

Showing in this program

ABCDoublespeak

• Yasmeen Fanari
• Syria, 2010
• 3 min.

ABCDoublespeak is a reminder of the evil and grotesque nature of the words used to describe violence in our world.

Baby One More Time !!!! Mobarak & Bin Ali

• Wael Attili
• Jordan, 2011

What people do not know is that Hosni Mobarak and Bin Ali are into music.
Kharabeesh camera was lucky to film them both during exercise...

Canvas on Mixed Media

• Jalal Maghout
• Syria, 2013
• 5 min.

Crows are more humane than we think!
Here, the crow no longer collects shiny things. Shiny things automatically make their way to a deserted place instead of hitting their targets. They travel to a dark spot far away so that life can continue.

Coma

• Alaeddi Abou Taleb
• Tunisia, 2010
• 8 min.

The will to exist push a group of dead people composed of corpses and skulls to Re-prove their existence to get out from the dead world.

Fouad

• Joan Baz / David Habchy
• Lebanon, 2013

Fouad's father is one of the 17,000 missing people in Lebanon.

Growing

• Tariq Rimawi
• Jordan, 2013
• 5 min.

A child plays with a toy weapon and grows up along with it.

How to create a high-end ISIS product

• Wael Attili
• Jordan, 2014
• 2 min.

We may never know who created ISIS in the first place, but we surely know how they were created.
Kharabeesh agents just knew where to look.

Jasmin

• Husam Wahab
• Syria, 2013
• 6 min.

In a city consumed by fire and damned to destruction, a man seeks to dissociate himself from the clashing masses, but he falls victim to the devastation that has scourged all.
Only the jasmine flower, with all its charm, can rebuild all that has been destroyed and bring to life what the fire has ravaged.

Like There Is No Tomorrow

• Marilyn Haddad
• Canada, 2014
• 2 min.

Leila, living in beirut, wants to dance in able to survive her daily stressful routines.

Melody Night

• Kayhan Anwar
• Iraq, 2014
• 2 min.

The story is a bout war and the bad face of war.

Metaphor

• Wael Toubaji
• Syria, 2014
• 4 min.

Within a huge contrast between beautiful details and war surrounding, the main character keeps on singing and enjoying the beautiful details left in her home, ignoring the rockets and the death machine.
Metaphor is a poetry inspired by a poetry and designed as a poetical short film.

Oh La Lah

• Islam Ahmed ElSayed
• Egypt, 2014
• 3 min.

“Oh La Lah” is an animated music video celebrate the New Year. It is a sarcastic Egyptian adaptation of the classical “Jingle Bells” song, The song is performed by three old men drives a boat that float on sewage representing the voice of hope and encouraging youth not to give up and keep fighting for their dreams, despite the surrounding corruption.

Suleima

• Jahal Maghout
• Syria, 2014
• 15 min.

Suleima is a woman who has been a part of the Syrian revolution since its beginning. Twice detained, she states : "I'd rather die than see someone arrested without trying to help."

Survival

• Yamen Alkhatib
• Syria, 2015
• 4 min.

Civilians are exposed to the risk of death in the war, so they decide to resort to safe countries. But there are some people who prefer to stay and face death rather than live a life as a refugee.

Tafaha (Nonsense) Cubed

• Wael Attili
• Jordan, 2015
• 3 min.

We would like to draw your attention to that this video does not contain any value or goal
or message, and for those who wish to watch a meaningful and valuable video, we advise them
not to waste their time and watch this one ....

The Belief

• Amir Vahedi
• Iran, 2014
• 2 min.

(political work)The enemy attacked the country and war began. A pair of Soldier boots was being putting on by a man who are invisible. The boots get ready to go fight against the enemy, but when the boots saw the other fragment boots in the battlefield. They refused to go forward. The man puts off the boots and step forward to the front fighting with the enemy.

Truth

• Yamen Alkhatib
• Syria, 2014
• 2 min.

We dream a journalist has the freedom to work anywhere on this earth, but during a war a journalist is in constant danger, like a soldier.