With a countdown to football world Cup in Qatar running cartoon series featuring alien crash-land in The Gulf state aims to tighten down The cultural gap between more From a million foreigners football fans and the host nation conservative population.
Like the next planet fans star of The series launched by Qatar first Animation studio must learn Arabic pronunciation, how To drink coffee – and discover that the Qataris are preparing way a lot of food for their guests.
Creators Hussain Haider and Amal Al-Shamri also want To deliver a message to Qataris that they will have to make cultural concessions to drinking beer, good time-seeking audiences who converge on their country in November and December.
The first Two episodes of 10 minutes each of Kawkabani means “Planet Man”. in Arabic – have already launched on YouTube by their company Nefaish Animation.
as a cartoon studioWe looked at him content in The regioneven in in Qatar and we felt that there is a shortage of content Al-Shammari, the creator of Nafeesh, said director. The Arabic words were sometimes confused and costume He wasn’t always quite right.
“We felt like we need a studio in Qatar cares about all these details and represents the Qatari culture in right way,” He said.
Small Qatar victory in Ensuring the right to host the World Cup gives it the opportunity to show off its traditions and customs. “we want to explain a lot of things and share our culture with Al-Shamry said: who Script books.
Nafeesh hired artists from the Middle East only with Knowledge of the Arabic culture added Haider in the shipment of animation. Besides the planetary, the series three main diagonal characters represent what creators considered to be main strings of 270,000 members of the indigenous community, who live side by side more of 2.5 million foreign workers.
coffee culture
Faisal is a traditional Bedouins community that inhabited the desert. “you know they more proud of “Their culture, and sometimes they overreact,” Al-Shammari said. support It doesn’t matter what. They will always be there for you.”
Another Saad of Qatari charactershe is more “modern” city resident. He’s open to different cultures, he’s open to people who “want to be an entrepreneur,” the writer said.
Like for Khalifa, it represents the growing mixed community in Qatar. vegetarian, his mother He is British and has father diagonal. all of The five rings in The first series – Translated into English, French, Spanish, Hindi, Chinese and Japanese on Youtube – shows Qatari way of Life, especially food and drink.
kawkabani runs In trouble for Not knowing the right hand movement used to indicate drinking a lot of coffee. but the series also He makes fun of the Qataris.
With up To 1.4 million expected visitors in Qatar for At the World Cup, Al-Shammari said that the cartoons seek to “make clear to the Qataris that they must be accepted.” of These cultures…and help They (visitors) coexist or understand Qatari culture as well.”
Kawkabani was partly funded by the Qatar World Cup organizers, the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, as well as the Doha Film Institute and telecom giant Vodafone.
while the first programs do not touch on Controversial issues such as rights of Migrant workers and womenHaider insisted that he was there complete artistic freedom.
“this is our show The sponsors were very supportive and they gave us All freedom to create it way We see it,” he said already second plan more series of Kawkabani and other projects to highlight Arab culture.
Our heritage full of stories is full of characters and full of We are the champions want To view it from Qatar or from Arabic region Generally world,” He said.
