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Young and poor, Yaman creates a solution to his difficult circumstances, and at the same time generates a sense of desperately needed hope.
Young and poor, Yaman is a proficient inventor, and he designs a brilliant machine that will take ordinary tissues and transform them into super-tissues that are capable of protecting him like armour. As Yaman creates a solution to his difficult circumstances, he also generates a sense of desperately needed hope. A paean to the power of the imagination, and a cry for help for youngsters living in poverty, ‘Yaman’ is a wonderfully imagined film that cleverly combines live-action and stop-motion elements.

Credits

Director
Amer AlBarzawi
Screenwriter
Amer AlBarzawi
Producer
Amer AlBarzawi
Editor
Amer AlBarzawi
Production Company
Bidayyat for Audiovisual Arts
Sound
Simon Abou Assali
Music
Simon Abou Assali
Other
Animation: Ammar Alkhattab
Cast
Yaman Alhalabi

About the Director

Amer Albarzawi
Amer AlBarzawi was born in Damascus in 1987 and grew up in Rukneddine, Syria. He left Syria after the start of the current conflict, and has lived in France since 2017. He is a co-founder of the Majooneh collective, with whom he began to make stop-motion films. ‘Fade to Black’ (2014), their first film, won the Jury Prize at the Toronto Urban Film Festival, and ‘Yaman’ took the Best Short Film Awar