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 |
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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 |