screening format
DCP
aspect ratio
2.35:1 (CinemaScope)
sound format
Dolby Surround
original-language
Arabic
subtitles
English
screening format
Media File (ProRes, mp4, mov)
aspect ratio
2.35:1 (CinemaScope)
sound format
Dolby Surround
original-language
Arabic
subtitles
English
Trapped in Damascus, surrounded by war, a lonely man becomes increasingly lost in endless self-talk, his fantasies of fleeing and the inner dialogues with his dog. The film is based on the director’s own experience during the first two years of the Syrian war.
director
Jalal Maghout
Animation
Jalal Maghout
Editing
Jalal Maghout
DOP
Jalal Maghout
Script
Jalal Maghout
Original Score
Dascha Dauenhauer
Production
Karsten Matern
Sound Design
Nicolas Voss, Oscar Zöllner
film school
Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Festivals
2020
Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden
(Grand Prix)
2020
FILMFEST DRESDEN - International Short Film Festival, Dresden, Germany
(Lobende Erwähnung Filmton)
Production
- Wait a Second! GbR
- Karsten Matern
- Wrangelstr. 86
- 10997 Berlin
- Germany
- +49 163 7017016
- http://www.waitasecondfilms.com/
Distribution
- Wait a Second! GbR
- Karsten Matern
- Wrangelstr. 86
- 10997 Berlin
- Germany
- +49 163 7017016
- http://www.waitasecondfilms.com/
Sales
- Wait a Second! GbR
- Karsten Matern
- Wrangelstr. 86
- 10997 Berlin
- Germany
- +49 163 7017016
- http://www.waitasecondfilms.com/
School
- Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
- Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
- 14482 Potsdam
- Germany
- +49 331 6202564
- http://www.filmuniversitaet.de
Jalal Maghout
Is a filmmaker from Syria. 2010 received his BA Visual Communication in Damascus. His films have been shown at festivals around the world. He is a member of many festival juries, and in 2019 was awarded his MA Animation Directing from the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF.
Filmography
2010 Creatures of Inexistence
2013 Canvas on Mixed Media
2014 Suleima
2020 Have a Nice Dog!
2024 As I Was A Tree
