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Ten-year-old Hanan lives in a fishing village on the coast of the Arabian Peninsula. She has always wanted to join her father on his nighttime fishing trips, but he doesn’t let...

Category Out of competition
Section Made in Qatar
Tipology Short Film

Moayyad has bigger dreams than working in his father’s modest bakery. When the young Syrian man leaves his home for Qatar, however, he finds that life abroad isn’t what he...

Category Out of competition
Section Made in Qatar
Tipology Short Film

A fantastical animation commissioned by Al Rayyan Productions to celebrate Qatar National Day, HERO AND THE MESSAGE tells the tale of a Qatari brother and sister who travel back...

Category Out of competition
Section Made in Qatar
Tipology Animation, Short Film

Grandmother is deteriorating after her greedy children left her. Rose, her thorny beast of an housekeeper is unable to prevent her transformation into a chair as Grandmother loses...

Category Official Competition
Section Generator +18
Tipology Animation, Short Film

In the bedroom, the television is showing violent images from the Arab Spring revolutions. Hoping for peace and quiet, he mutes the sound and begins to read, but a fly interrupts...

Category Out of competition
Section Qatar Special
Tipology Short Film

This film shows the impact that careless driving (excessive speed) has on a boy and his friend and their families. After an unfortunate accident what happens to those left behind?

Category Out of competition
Section Made in Qatar
Tipology Short Film
Access

Doha is known for its soaring and sparkling skyline. In ‘Immortalizing Memories’, we are transported to another side of the metropolis – Ateya, a quaint low-rise apartment...

Category Out of competition
Section Made in Qatar
Tipology Short Film

Out in the beautiful quiet of the desert, a man teaches his young sons how to track and hunt. Frustration leads to an apparently harmless struggle between the two brothers – but...

Category Official Competition
Section Made in Qatar
Tipology Short Film

Two Sri Lankans work as cleaners at a mosque in Qatar. Sajid, lazy and mischievous, is often late and forever playing pranks on those who frequent the mosque; while Razzak spends...

Category Out of competition
Section Made in Qatar
Tipology Short Film

The film follows five Swazi orphaned children as they collaborate to tell the original tale of Liyana, a fictional character whose early life bears remarkable similarities to...

Category Official Competition
Section GEx Doc
Tipology Documentary, Feature Film