Falafel Cart

Falafel Cart
Film poster
Directed byAbdullah Al-Wazzan
Written byAbdullah Al-Wazzan
Music byDan Phillipson
Animation byAbdullah Al-Wazzan
Color processColor
Production
company
RoyalTales
Distributed byRoyalTales
Release date
  • September 13, 2019 (2019-09-13)
Running time
14 minutes
CountryKuwait
LanguageEnglish

Falafel Cart is a 2019 animated short drama film produced by RoyalTales and directed by Abdullah Al-Wazzan with an original score by Dan Phillipson and sound design by Andrew Vernon. The short blends stop motion animation with traditional and some computer animation. In 2019, the film was submitted for the 2020 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film making it Kuwait's first short film to ever be submitted to the Academy Awards. In 2020 The film earned an official selection at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival and received a special mention as "best of the world". In 2021 the film won best animated short at the Burbank International Film Festival. In 2019 the film won best international short film at the Los Angeles Animation Festival.