Let’s play soldiers

Written By Alex Szalat

2022-2023｜Yémen, Qatar

  • Directed by Mariam Al-Dhubhani (Yemen)
    Production: Mohammed Al-Jaberi (Meem Square Film LLC, Yemen)

  • Thematics: War, Yemen, Child-soldier

Prize for the best pitch at Close up’s Workshop 2022

A 16 year-old child soldier, Nasser, returns home to seek his place in the community in a small village South of Yemen, where he realizes that he must protect his two younger brothers from following the same path of becoming soldiers.

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