DOKUKIDS
Ya Hoota
يا حوتة
Directors
Abdulaziz Yousif
Latifa Al-Darwish
Producer
Ben Robinson
2020
Qatar
11 min
Color
A little girl attempts to save the moon from a gigantic whale along with her cousin. Will she succeed?
Director
Latifa Al-Darwish is an award-winning filmmaker and storyteller. Her work ranges between documentaries and cartoons. She is interested in telling the untold stories. She is inspired by the small neighbors in her city Alwakra and her grandmothers' stories. She received her BSc in Communication from Northwestern University in Qatar, and her MA from King’s College London in Culture and creative industries where she did her thesis on the Cultural memory of Alwakra city.
Abdulaziz Yousif is a cartoonist publishing in a daily newspaper under the stage name “crocodile” covering various social and political topics. He has participated and organized multiple local and international galleries. The art portfolio of the artist is very diverse in terms of techniques of executions such as, animation, multimedia, traditional art work on canvas, graphic illustration, and sculpting. He has also produced and conceptualized many adverting campaigns for local institutions and companies.
Other films in DOKUKIDS

A Plushie’s Dream

Al Tabbab

Cuckoo

Eternal Igloo

Fingils (Library)

Fingils (The Flying Cub)

Footsteps on the Wind

Fragile

Glowing

Heaven

I Sleep Little And Dream A Lot

Justin and the Werloobee

Kaval

Maria Rose

Material Girl

Message For You

Open Session

Paper GOD

Pengugee

Ramón

Reflection

Refuge

Remote Desktop Animations

Sanctuary

Siren's tail

Spring Always Comes Back

Sugar - A Bittersweet Journey

Taximan

The Intronauta

The Legend of Santa

The Musifants

The Other Way Wolf

The Plastic Turtle

They Refused to get on Board

White Night

Zabezoo. Ears N' Tail

Zebra
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