From the NSI peace-building film Red Top, Blue Top: Leader of the Blue Tops Fazel looks through his window as the Red Tops prepare to drive his people out of town. Meanwhile, the Blue Tops are plotting to do the same to them

The Red Tops believe that all Blue Tops eat worms. The Blue Tops believe the Red Tops eat rats! Their beliefs are very vivid, as you can see

Beirut: Two puppets put aside difffences to be friends

Puppet Jala is the Wise Man’s companion. In Out of the Shadows he's a source of great comfort for Sera, reminding her of her toy donkey, her one possession from before the war

Scene from Out of the Shadows: Sera is so afraid of shadows that even ordinary shapes take on a sinister air in her mind's eye and make her scream

Shadow Torch Play: Young Syrian refugee children have fun with torches and shadows they made, one of many different play and storytelling activities linked to the films

Syrian refugee children in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. Their parents say many are terrified of darkness or loud noises, and are often haunted by nightmares

Drawings of the shadow puppets that perform in the actual film. Syria has a rich tradition of shadow puppetry dating back centuries

A Syrian refugee and a shadow puppet bird for a story he created about peace

A boy recounts Red Top, Blue Top’s story to puppet ‘Hassan’ at a school in Beirut. His class thought the film's most urgent message was to see similarities in others above difference

On the shoot: Red Top, Blue Top

A table top puppet dances at a school for refugee Syrian children in Turkey

Syrian children’s drawing of Adnan and Fazel in the film, here friends

No Strings workshop participants, Beirut. Laughter as this team takes a bow after their puppet sketch on friendship and inclusion