Sound
Rafia Aridi's lullaby vocals—chilling and hypnotic.
Direction
Saleh's confident minimalism in 16 devastating minutes.
Director
Ahmad Saleh
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Saleh, a Syrian-German filmmaker, drew from Palestinian and Arabic lullaby traditions, transforming oral folklore into visual nightmare.
Hiam Abbass recorded her lines in one sitting, improvising breath patterns that the animators matched frame-for-frame to her actual breathing.
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