Film workshop for children

Each group of five children will collaborate to write a short story together for a five-minute film on a topic of their choice. After completing the writing of the film script, each group will search for filming locations and decoration elements in the school that they want to use for their films.

The children will agree on their roles which are directing, filming, acting and sound recording.

At the end of the workshop, the instructor will edit the films, then all the participating children will see the films they have produced on the big screen giving each other constructive feedback and analyzing the films together with the instructor.

In this workshop, children will be able to present their ideas in an understandable way to communicate them to the audience who will be invited to watch the films with them.

About the instructors:

Mohammed Almughanni

Director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He was born in 1994 in Gaza, Palestine. He pursued his Bachelor and Masters degree in Film Directing at Łódź Film School in Poland. In the past few years he did film in different areas in the world such as Cuba, Palestine, Denmark, China, Jordan, Lebanon, Poland and Germany.

He is an author of documentary and narrative films, including Blacklisted (2021), Son Of The Streets (2020), Falafala (2019), Operation (2018), Where’s the Donkey (2018), Shujayya (2015) and Halawan (2012). His films were selected and awarded at numerous film festivals around the world.

Abdullah Jamal AlKhatib 

A film director, writer and human rights defender. He was born in Damascus in 1989 and identifies as a Palestinian-Syrian. He studied sociology at the University of Damascus and is currently completing his studies in Germany.

Before the revolution in Syria in 2011, he worked at the UNRWA as a coordinator for a youth support center in Yarmouk Camp. During the revolution he has co-established a training center in his besieged Damascene neighborhood, under the name Watad Center for Training and Development with the aim of skill sharing amongst activists in the light of the absence of all state educational institutions.

He was selected by the German Greenpeace magazine as the Peacemaker of the Year 2014. In 2016, he was awarded the Swedish Per Anger Prize for Human Rights. Since 2019, he has been living in Germany and working in the field of writing social studies, political articles and making documentaries. In 2021, he published his award-winning first feature documentary Little Palestine - Diary of a Siege.