• The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn in 3D

  Special Screening

  Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures Present “The Adventures of Tintin” directed by Steven…

  

  Steven Spielberg / France, United States of America / 2011 / Feature Narrative

  • Fri, Oct 28, 02:30 PM, KOH - 2

• Almanya - Welcome To Germany

  Contemporary World Cinema

  A charming cross-cultural comedy about three generations of German-Turks, “Almanya” is the stor…

  

  Yasemin Şamdereli / Germany / 2010 / Feature Narrative

  • Thu, Oct 27, 10:00 PM, KOH - 1
  • Fri, Oct 28, 08:30 PM, CC - 4
  • Sat, Oct 29, 03:00 PM, KSH - 3

• Arab Shorts Comp 1

  Arab Short Film Competition

  This collection of Arab shorts presents five stories of love, following women waiting for somet…

  

  / / 2011 / Short Narrative

  • Wed, Oct 26, 09:30 PM, DC - 8
  • Fri, Oct 28, 05:30 PM, CC - 4

• Arab Shorts Comp 2

  Arab Short Film Competition

  A collection of short films which explore five characters lost between absence, lies and miracl…

  

  / / 2011 / Short Narrative

  • Fri, Oct 28, 08:00 PM, DC - 7
  • Sat, Oct 29, 04:30 PM, CC - 2

• The Artist

  Contemporary World Cinema

  A visually enthralling homage to the early years of cinema, “Artist” is a black and white silen…

  

  Michel Hazanavicius / France / 2011 / Feature Narrative

  • Wed, Oct 26, 05:00 PM, KOH - 2
  • Fri, Oct 28, 10:00 PM, KSH - 4
  • Sat, Oct 29, 07:00 PM, KOH - 1

• Bahiya & Mahmoud

  Arab Short Film Competition

  Ageing couple Bahiya and Mahmoud have fallen into a reliable routine of bickering and making on…

  

  Zaid Abu Hamdan / Jordan, United States of America / 2011 / Short Narrative

  • Come back soon to see screening dates

• Black Gold

  Special Screening

  A sweeping historical epic set against the dramatic backdrop of the Arabian Peninsula in the 19…

  

  Jean-Jacques Annaud / France, Italy / 2011 / Feature Narrative

  • Tue, Oct 25, 08:00 PM, KOAT - 9
  • Tue, Oct 25, 08:30 PM, KOH

• Bollywood - The Greatest Love Story Ever Told

  Special Screening

  A film celebrating the spectacular world of Hindi cinema, featuring archival clips and intervie…

  

  Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Jeff Zimbalist / India / 2011 / Feature Documentary

  • Wed, Oct 26, 08:00 PM, KOAT - 9

• The Bottom of the Pit

  Arab Short Film Competition

  Lotfi, invaded by despair, thinks about suicide but finds himself engulfed in a nightmare in wh…

  

  Moez Ben Hassen / Tunisia / 2011 / Short Narrative

  • Come back soon to see screening dates

• Boxing With Her

  Arab Feature Competition

  This revealing documentary explores the world of female boxing in Tunisia, a society where the…

  

  Latifa Robbana Doghri, Salem Trabelsi / Tunisia / 2011 / Feature Documentary

  • Fri, Oct 28, 06:00 PM, KSH - 3
  • Sat, Oct 29, 02:00 PM, DC - 7

• Bullhead

  Contemporary World Cinema

  A crime drama about Jacky Vanmarsenille, a young Limburg cattle farmer who is approached by an…

  

  Michaël R. Roskam / Belgium / 2011 / Feature Narrative

  • Wed, Oct 26, 07:30 PM, CC - 2
  • Fri, Oct 28, 03:30 PM, DC - 8

• Café Regular, Cairo

  Arab Short Film Competition

  In a regular cafe in Cairo a relationship goes through its first big test.

  

  Ritesh Batra / Egypt, India / 2011 / Short Narrative

  • Come back soon to see screening dates

• Cat in Boots in 3D

  Special Screening

  Long before Puss ever met Shrek, our suave and furry feline hero goes on a swashbuckling ride,…

  

  Chris Miller / United States of America / 2011 / Feature Narrative

  • Fri, Oct 28, 07:00 PM, KOH - 1
  • Sat, Oct 29, 05:00 PM, KOH - 2

• Chinese Take Away

  Contemporary World Cinema

  A delightful and heartwarming Latin American comedy, “Chinese Take Away” is the story of Jun, a…

  

  Sebastián Borensztein / Argentina, Spain / 2011 / Feature Narrative

  • Wed, Oct 26, 06:00 PM, KSH - 3
  • Thu, Oct 27, 08:30 PM, CC - 4
  • Sat, Oct 29, 07:30 PM, DC - 6

• Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope

  Contemporary World Cinema

  A documentary exploring the dreams of fans making the annual pilgrimage to Comic-Con – a San Di…

  

  Morgan Spurlock / United States of America / 2011 / Feature Documentary

  • Fri, Oct 28, 05:45 PM, KOH - 2
  • Sat, Oct 29, 01:00 PM, KSH - 4

• Crayons of Askalan

  Arab Feature Competition

  A creative documentary based on the powerful story of Palestinian artist Zuhdi Al Adawi. In 197…

  

  Laila Hotait Salas / Lebanon, Spain / 2011 / Feature Documentary

  • Wed, Oct 26, 07:30 PM, DC - 6
  • Fri, Oct 28, 05:00 PM, DC - 7

• Declaration of War

  Contemporary World Cinema

  Based on the filmmaker’s personal experience, “Declaration of War” is an intimate portrait of t…

  

  Valérie Donzelli / France / 2011 / Feature Narrative

  • Thu, Oct 27, 07:00 PM, KSH - 4
  • Fri, Oct 28, 04:00 PM, KSH - 4
  • Sat, Oct 29, 05:00 PM, DC - 7

• The Eclipse's Shadow

  Special Screening

  “The Eclipse’s Shadow” is a story of an interaction of three couples that take place during an…

  

  Shiro Tokiwa / Japan / 2011 / Short Narrative

  • Come back soon to see screening dates

• An Egyptian Citizen

  Special Screening

  A feudal mayor manages by a court verdict to restore his lands. When his spoiled son is summone…

  

  Salah Abo-Seif / Egypt / 1991 / Feature Narrative

  • Fri, Oct 28, 09:00 PM, KOAT - 9

• Elvis of Nazareth

  Arab Short Film Competition

  A street boy of Nazareth develops a friendship with a 72 year-old man who imagines himself as E…

  

  Rani Massalha / Palestine / 2011 / Short Narrative

  • Come back soon to see screening dates

• Frog In The Well

  Special Screening

  Joe leaves Tokyo for the first time in 10 years to spread his mother’s ashes across Japan. He v…

  

  Ken Ochiai / Japan / 2009 / Short Narrative

  • Come back soon to see screening dates

• Goat-Walking

  Special Screening

  In Yambaru village, an old man raises a goat for his son's wedding feast, a tradition in Okinaw…

  

  Ryugo Nakamura / Japan / 2009 / Short Narrative

  • Come back soon to see screening dates

• Grandma

  Arab Short Film Competition

  Sarah, a Lebanese teenager, has her life turned upside down when a miracle in her grandmother's…

  

  Merva Faddoul / Lebanon / 2011 / Short Narrative

  • Come back soon to see screening dates

• The Gulf Habibi

  Made in Qatar

  An unemployed French guy attempts to show his real estate project to a man from the Gulf in ave…

  

  Mahdi Ali Ali / Qatar / 2011 / Short Narrative

  • Come back soon to see screening dates

• Haneen

  Arab Short Film Competition

  Haneen lives alone in a Palestinian city. She befriends Salem, a new boy in the neighborhood wh…

  

  Ossama Bawardi / Palestine, Qatar, Jordan / 2011 / Short Narrative

  • Come back soon to see screening dates

• Headhunters

  Contemporary World Cinema

  Based on the best-selling novel by Jo Nesbo, this Norwegian crime thriller follows Roger, a suc…

  

  Morten Tyldum / Norway / 2011 / Feature Narrative

  • Wed, Oct 26, 08:00 PM, CC - 1
  • Thu, Oct 27, 10:30 PM, DC - 6
  • Sat, Oct 29, 07:00 PM, KSH - 4

• The Help

  Special Screening

  1960s Mississippi. Southern society girl, Skeeter, returns from college determined to become a…

  

  Tate Taylor / United States of America / 2011 / Feature Narrative

  • Thu, Oct 27, 08:00 PM, KOH - 2
  • Sat, Oct 29, 05:00 PM, CC - 1

• How Big is Your Love

  Arab Feature Competition

  One day when Adel’s parents quarrel, they send him to his grandparents for the weekend. Two day…

  

  Fatma Zohra Zamoum / Algeria, Morocco / 2011 / Feature Narrative

  • Wed, Oct 26, 08:30 PM, DC - 5
  • Fri, Oct 28, 02:00 PM, CC - 1

• The Hunter

  Contemporary World Cinema

  Based on the acclaimed novel by Julia Leigh, “The Hunter” is a powerful psychological drama tha…

  

  Daniel Nettheim / Australia / 2011 / Feature Narrative

  • Fri, Oct 28, 09:30 PM, KOH - 2
  • Sat, Oct 29, 02:00 PM, CC - 1

• I Love You Ma'am

  Made in Qatar

  A story of a young girl who fell in love with her professor in history back in the Philippines…

  

  Jan Xavier Pacle / Qatar / 2011 / Short Narrative

  • Come back soon to see screening dates

• In The Open

  Contemporary World Cinema

  Elisa, a young, successful woman moves to a rundown provincial home in the country with her hus…

  

  Hernán Belón / Argentina, Italy, France / 2010 / Feature Narrative

  • Wed, Oct 26, 10:00 PM, KSH - 4
  • Fri, Oct 28, 10:15 PM, DC - 5
  • Sat, Oct 29, 08:00 PM, DC - 7

• The Lady

  Special Screening

  The true story of Aung San Suu Kyi, the woman at the core of Burma’s democracy movement, and he…

  

  Luc Besson / France, United Kingdom / 2011 / Feature Narrative

  • Sat, Oct 29, 07:00 PM, KOAT - 9

• Lust

  Arab Feature Competition

  “Lust” takes us into the lives of the inhabitants of a marginalised street in Alexandria, Egypt…

  

  Khaled El Hagar / Egypt, France / 2011 / Feature Narrative

  • Wed, Oct 26, 09:30 PM, KOH - 1
  • Fri, Oct 28, 05:00 PM, CC - 1
  • Sat, Oct 29, 06:00 PM, KSH - 3

• Made in Qatar

  Made in Qatar

  DFI is proud to present a new programme to feature emerging filmmaking talent in Qatar. Our…

  

  / / 2011 / Short Narrative

  • Fri, Oct 28, 04:30 PM, DC - 6
  • Sat, Oct 29, 03:00 PM, DC - 8

• Mama Africa

  Contemporary World Cinema

  A documentary about the late Miriam Makeba, the phenomenally talented and charismatic musical i…

  

  Mika Kaurismäk / Germany, South Africa, Finland / 2011 / Feature Documentary

  • Thu, Oct 27, 07:00 PM, KOAT - 9
  • Fri, Oct 28, 10:30 PM, DC - 6
  • Sat, Oct 29, 01:30 PM, CC - 2

• A Man of Honor

  Arab Feature Competition

  Set in Lebanon and Jordan, “A Man of Honor” is the story of passion, betrayal and the many face…

  

  Jean-Claude Codsi / Lebanon, France, Qatar / 2011 / Feature Narrative

  • Fri, Oct 28, 09:00 PM, KSH - 3
  • Sat, Oct 29, 12:30 PM, DC - 8

• Mister Rococo

  Special Screening

  Enough of life where everything is cute! This is a romantic comedy about a girl who gets over h…

  

  Naoto Hidaka / Japan / 2010 / Short Narrative

  • Come back soon to see screening dates

• Morning, Noon, Evening...and Morning

  Arab Short Film Competition

  The relationship between Selma and Farid ended before it even started. A few years later, their…

  

  / Syria, France / 2011 / Short Narrative

  • Come back soon to see screening dates

• My Father is Still a Communist - Intimate Secrets to be Published

  Arab Short Film Competition

  All that remains of Rashid Ghossein and Maream Hmadeh's relationship is a large collection of r…

  

  Ahmad Ghossein / UAE, Lebanon / 2011 / Short Documentary

  • Come back soon to see screening dates

• New Generation Japanese Shorts

  Special Screening

  DFI presents a special package of short films in partnership with Japan’s Short Shorts Film Fes…

  

  / Japan / N/A / Short Narrative

  • Wed, Oct 26, 05:30 PM, DC - 5
  • Sat, Oct 29, 04:30 PM, DC - 6

• Normal

  Arab Feature Competition

  As the Arab Spring begins in Tunisia and Egypt, Fouzi gathers a group of actors to show them fo…

  

  Merzak Allouache / Algeria, France / 2011 / Feature Narrative

  • Fri, Oct 28, 07:00 PM, KSH - 4
  • Sat, Oct 29, 01:30 PM, DC - 6

• Omar Amiralay Master Class

  Special Screening

  Everyday Life in a Syrian Village

  

  Omar Amiralay / Syria, France / 1974 / Feature Documentary

  • Thu, Oct 27, 11:00 AM, KSH - 3

• Omar Amiralay Tribute

  Special Screening

  A Flood in the Baath Country

  

  Omar Amiralay / Syria, France / 2004 / Feature Documentary

  • Thu, Oct 27, 05:00 PM, KOH - 2

• Omar Killed Me

  Arab Feature Competition

  The film tracks the investigation of a gardener wrongly convicted for the murder of his employe…

  

  Roschdy Zem / France, Morocco / 2011 / Feature Narrative

  • Thu, Oct 27, 07:00 PM, KOH - 1
  • Fri, Oct 28, 10:45 PM, CC - 1

• On The Road To Downtown

  Arab Feature Competition

  Through the lives of the characters and their simple daily details we discover together the dow…

  

  Sherif Elbendary / Egypt / 2011 / Feature Documentary

  • Thu, Oct 27, 08:00 PM, DC - 7
  • Fri, Oct 28, 07:30 PM, CC - 2

• The Raid

  Special Screening

  An elite SWAT team is tasked with raiding a derelict apartment building inhabited by gangsters…

  

  Gareth Huw Evans / Indonesia / 2011 / Feature Narrative

  • Wed, Oct 26, 08:30 PM, CC - 4
  • Fri, Oct 28, 11:00 PM, DC - 7

• Red Heart

  Arab Feature Competition

  After the death of her mother, 19-year-old Shirin discovers her father’s plans to trade her in…

  

  Halkawt Mustafa / Iraq, Kurdistan / 2011 / Feature Narrative

  • Wed, Oct 26, 07:00 PM, KSH - 4
  • Thu, Oct 27, 10:15 PM, CC - 2

• Rouge Parole

  Arab Feature Competition

  The Arab Revolution erupted in a country that few had expected, starting a political earthquake…

  

  Elyes Baccar / Tunisia / 2011 / Feature Documentary

  • Fri, Oct 28, 10:00 PM, KOH - 1
  • Sat, Oct 29, 02:30 PM, CC - 4

• Salaam Dunk

  Special Screening

  Set in Northern Iraq, “Salaam Dunk” is a documentary about basketball, the next generation of y…

  

  David Fine / Iraq, United States of America / 2011 / Feature Documentary

  • Thu, Oct 27, 06:00 PM, KSH - 3
  • Fri, Oct 28, 04:30 PM, CC - 2

• Sarah Palin - You Betcha!

  Special Screening

  Nick Broomfield’s quest for the real Sarah Palin involves battling the icy snows of Alaska in m…

  

  Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill / United Kingdom / 2011 / Feature Documentary

  • Fri, Oct 28, 03:00 PM, KSH - 3
  • Sat, Oct 29, 08:30 PM, DC - 5

• Sauna

  Special Screening

  A couple of old men are sitting in a steamy sauna, sweat dripping from their faces. A vague fi…

  

  Junya Nishioka / Japan / 2007 / Short Narrative

  • Come back soon to see screening dates

• Senna

  Special Screening

  The epic true story of Ayrton Senna, perhaps the greatest race car driver who ever lived. He ex…

  

  Asif Kapadia / United Kingdom / 2010 / Feature Documentary

  • Wed, Oct 26, 08:00 PM, KOH - 2
  • Thu, Oct 27, 08:00 PM, CC - 1

• Senses

  Arab Short Film Competition

  A story looking at how the marginalized and disadvantaged have found their own ways to communic…

  

  Mohamed Ramadan / Egypt / 2010 / Short Narrative

  • Come back soon to see screening dates

• Smile Bus

  Special Screening

  One day a young Korean girl, Yuna, decides to pack up and leave. She heads for Japan where she…

  

  Sang-joon Park / Japan / 2011 / Short Narrative

  • Come back soon to see screening dates

• Smuggler's Songs

  Arab Feature Competition

  After the execution of Louis Mandrin, a famous mid-18th century folk hero, his companions risk…

  

  Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche / Algeria, France / 2011 / Feature Narrative

  • Thu, Oct 27, 09:30 PM, DC - 8
  • Fri, Oct 28, 07:45 PM, DC - 6

• Spy Kids

  Special Screening

  A Doha Film Institute and Miramax Presentation

  

  Robert Rodriquez / United States of America / N/A / Feature Narrative

  • Fri, Oct 28, 06:00 PM, KOAT - 9

• Sushi Japan

  Special Screening

  Three businessmen are eating sushi in small shop at the foot of Red Fuji. A strange man of dign…

  

  Kenji Tanaka / Japan / 2005 / Short Narrative

  • Come back soon to see screening dates

• The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni

  Arab Feature Competition

  “The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni” is an elegy to a rich era of film production in Egypt,…

  

  Rania Stephan / Lebanon / 2011 / Feature Documentary

  • Thu, Oct 27, 06:30 PM, DC - 8
  • Fri, Oct 28, 09:30 PM, DC - 8

• Toll Booth

  Contemporary World Cinema

  Kenan is a reclusive toll booth attendant living with his ailing father. His lonely, humdrum li…

  

  Tolga Karaçelik / Turkey / 2010 / Feature Narrative

  • Thu, Oct 27, 09:00 PM, KSH - 3
  • Fri, Oct 28, 07:30 PM, DC - 5
  • Sat, Oct 29, 05:30 PM, CC - 4

• Tormented in 3D

  Contemporary World Cinema

  “Tormented” ventures into the terrifying corners of the mind through a young boy whose family s…

  

  Takashi Shimizu / Japan / 2011 / Feature Narrative

  • Thu, Oct 27, 11:00 PM, KOH - 2
  • Fri, Oct 28, 10:15 PM, CC - 2

• The Virgin, the Copts and Me

  Arab Feature Competition

  Namir is a French filmmaker of Egyptian origin. One day he watches a videotape of the Virgin Ma…

  

  Namir Abdel Messeeh / France / 2011 / Feature Documentary

  • Thu, Oct 27, 10:00 PM, KSH - 4
  • Fri, Oct 28, 02:30 PM, CC - 4

• Vivan las Antipodas!

  Contemporary World Cinema

  A breathtaking, original documentary which views the world upside down by visiting four pairs o…

  

  Victor Kossakovsky / Germany, Netherlands, Argentina, Chile / 2011 / Feature Documentary

  • Wed, Oct 26, 08:00 PM, DC - 7
  • Thu, Oct 27, 08:30 PM, DC - 5

• Vol spécial

  Contemporary World Cinema

  A powerful and moving documentary about the thousands of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers…

  

  Fernand Melgar / Switzerland / 2011 / Feature Documentary

  • Thu, Oct 27, 07:30 PM, DC - 6
  • Fri, Oct 28, 06:30 PM, DC - 8

• Where Do We Go Now?

  Contemporary World Cinema

  As sectarian conflict looms over a village in the Lebanese countryside, women of different reli…

  

  Nadine Labaki / Lebanon, France, Italy, Egypt / 2011 / Feature Narrative

  • Wed, Oct 26, 06:30 PM, KOH - 1
  • Fri, Oct 28, 08:00 PM, CC - 1
  • Sat, Oct 29, 02:30 PM, DC - 5

• Where are You?

  Arab Short Film Competition

  The film takes place in modern day Riyadh as Aziz, a loner, has isolated himself in his apartme…

  

  Abdullaziz Al-Nujaym / Saudi Arabia / 2011 / Short Narrative

  • Come back soon to see screening dates

• The Woman in the Fifth

  Contemporary World Cinema

  American writer Tom Ricks comes to Paris, desperate to put his life back together and win back…

  

  Pawel Pawlikowski / France, Poland, United Kingdom / 2011 / Feature Narrative

  • Wed, Oct 26, 09:00 PM, KSH - 3
  • Fri, Oct 28, 04:00 PM, KOH - 1
  • Sat, Oct 29, 05:30 PM, DC - 5

• Yearning

  Arab Feature Competition

  “Yearning” is a documentary about the role and margin of freedom women have in a male-dominated…

  

  Lina Alabed / Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / 2011 / Feature Documentary

  • Wed, Oct 26, 10:30 PM, DC - 6
  • Thu, Oct 27, 07:30 PM, CC - 2
  • Sat, Oct 29, 04:00 PM, KSH - 4

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