Ajyal Film Festival 2023

All films

All Countries

  • Embers

    Arab Feature Film Competition - Doha Tribecca Film Festival 2012

    ‘Embers’ is a touching tribute to the memory of the filmmaker’s grandmother – also named Tamara…

    Tamara Stepanyan / Armenia, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Free Range

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2015

    When an Israeli cow wanders across the Blue Line into South Lebanon, the authorities go to extr…

    Bassem Breish / Lebanon / Short Narrative

  • Horses of God

    Arab Feature Film Competition - Doha Tribecca Film Festival 2012

    Inspired by terrorist attacks in Casablanca in 2003, ‘God’s Horses’ follows two young men over…

    Nabil Ayouch / Morocco / Feature Narrative

  • The Idol

    Special Screening - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2015

    With his signature dramatic style and keen sense of locale, Academy Award-nominated Palestinian…

    Hany Abu-Assad / Palestine, United Kingdom, Qatar, Netherlands / Feature Narrative

  • The Idol

    Special Screening - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2016

    With his signature dramatic style and keen sense of locale, Academy Award-nominated Palestinian…

    Hany Abu-Assad / Palestine, United Kingdom, Qatar, Netherlands / Feature Narrative

  • In The Middle

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Film Festival 2019

    Forced to pick up arms, young soldiers are stuck in the middle of the ongoing war in Yemen.

    Mariam Al-Dhubhani / Yemen, Qatar / Short Documentary

  • In The Middle

    Made in Qatar - Ajyal Film Festival 2019

    Forced to pick up arms, young soldiers are stuck in the middle of the ongoing war in Yemen.

    Mariam Al-Dhubhani / Yemen, Qatar / Short Documentary