Ajyal Film Festival 2024

All Films

Batch 10 (الدفعة العاشرة)

Made in Qatar

Sana Al-Ansari / Short Documentary / Qatar / 2019 / 8 min / Colour / DCP
In Arabic, English / Arabic, English subtitles
Interests: Women, Documentary, Youth, Family, Based on a True Story, Creative Documentary
World Premiere

Synopsis

‘Batch 10’ is an enlightening and humanizing look at the mandatory military service in Qatar. The film follows two fresh recruits who recently graduated from the physically demanding three-month boot camp. Highlighting the challenges they faced during, and after their service, the film shows how the experience has positively impacted them on a personal level, despite the difficulties they endured.

About the Directors

Sana Al-Ansari is a Qatari/American Masters of Fine Arts Documentary Practice student at University College London. She graduated from NUQ in 2019 with a bachelors in Communication. She has a passion for filmmaking and participated in many different films as a sound recordist, script supervisor and producer. In 2017-2018, she joined the Studio 20Q Board as the Public Relations Chair. Sana has travelled extensively on service-learning trips, and enjoys learning about new people from different cultures. She received a grant from Doha Film Institute to produce a web series she co-wrote and also plans to direct an episode.

Credits

Director
Sana Al-Ansari
Producer
Abdulla Kamal
Editor
Tony El Ghazal
Music
Mohammed Bakri
Sound
Deya Al-Omari
Cast
Gibran Al-Bader, Saleh Al-Shebani , Sahar Al-Ansari

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