ATTENTION at the 2005 Dubai International Film Festival
November 30th, 2005 by Andre Soares
Attention, a Saudi Arabian animated short about the effects of terrorism on children, will be screened for the first time in the Middle East at this year’s edition of the Dubai International Film Festival. The three-minute film was written, produced, and directed by first-time Syrian director Akram Agha.
“Attention is simply a gloomy vision of what could happen if terrorism and radicalism rule the world,” the Saudi-based Agha explained. “Terrorists will raise new generations of bullets in the form of children and use them as the fuel for their wars against civilization. There are too many innocents suffering from terrorism all over the world, and I just want to say to these people to take their dirty hands off the children.”
This year’s Arabian Shorts program includes 13 short and documentary films from across the Arab world.
Ninety-eight films will be screened at the second Dubai International Film Festival, which will be held between December 11-17, 2005.
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