What do children in Najaf draw? What stories do Istanbul children want to tell? What matters to a child in Nicosia?
1000 AND 1 REALITIES begins with this simple question and trusts the answer. Through participatory workshops, children become researchers of their own worlds, mapping the ordinary and extraordinary of where they live. Their drawings become source material — not something to be corrected or improved, but material to be honored and amplified.
Professional animators then translate these drawings into motion, preserving the immediacy and honesty of the child’s line while extending it into narrative. The result is animation that carries the authority of lived experience — stories about actual places, drawn by people who inhabit them.
