Children Documentary Project

During the workshop, documentary films that talk about social problems in some places in the world will be shown to the children, and then they will discuss the importance of films, their goals and why films are made.

After the preparatory step, the children will make one joint documentary about how they see their neighborhood with their own eyes. All children will have time to use the camera to tell us what they want to communicate with others.

Children will learn how films help us tell our stories and communicate our voice through audio-visual materials. The trainer Mohammed Almughanni will discuss with them the documentary film that they made, as it will be shown to them on the last day of the workshop.

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.