Ajyal Film Festival 2023

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  • Revive the Lira's Glory

    Made in Qatar - Ajyal Film Festival 2019

    Ibrahim Sultani is a 22-year-old architecture major who has a hobby of painting portraits on ba…

    Alessandra El Chanti / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Documentary

  • SNAP

    Bariq - ages 4+ - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2013

    Everyone makes fun of Snap because he’s no good at catching fish – until a cool frog shows him…

    Thomas G. Murphy / Belgium, United Kingdom / Short Narrative

  • Sahara

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2015

    A long figure rides an oryx across the Sahara on a mission to bring peace to her war-torn land.

    Jérémie Faé, Arthur Morin, Georgia Noël Wolinski, Laure Petrini, Caroline Tarrago / France / Short Narrative

  • Scarecrow

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2015

    Widowed, illiterate and terribly poor, Belyn lives with her three children in a rural town in t…

    Zig Madamba Dulay / Philippines / Feature Narrative

  • School of Hope

    Ajyal Competition, Ajyal at Vox - Ajyal Film Festival 2021

    In the vast expanse of desert, East of Atlas Mountains in Morocco, seasonal rain and snow once…

    Mohamed El Aboudi / Finland, France, Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Shame and Glasses

    Bariq - ages 4+ - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2013

    Mirko is self-conscious about wearing his glasses in front of a girl he likes at school, but wi…

    Alessandro Riconda / Italy / Short Narrative

  • A Shout from Within

    Mohaq - ages 8+ - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2013

    Eight students from the Filipino community in Qatar – all from different family backgrounds, a…

    Jan Xavier Pacle / Qatar / Feature Narrative