Ajyal Film Festival 2023

Ajyal Film Festival 2020

  • Encountering Samir

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Film Festival 2020

    In a war zone, Farah and her brother make friends with an enemy counterpart—turning the barren…

    Rand Beiruty / Jordan, Germany / Short Narrative

  • Falafel Cart

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Film Festival 2020

    During a stormy night and in the middle of nowhere, a lonely immigrant falafel vendor stumbles…

    Abdullah Al-Wazzan / Kuwait / Short Narrative

  • Father

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Film Festival 2020

    Loving father of two Nikola is forced to give up his children to social services after poverty…

    Srdan Golubović / Serbia, France, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina / Feature Narrative

  • Frankenstein

    Special Screening - Ajyal Film Festival 2020

    Still unnerving to this day, Frankenstein explores the fine line between genius and madness. Th…

    James Whale / United States of America / Feature Narrative

  • Gevar's Land

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Film Festival 2020

    Newly settled with his partner and son in a suburb of Reims, Gevar—who has arrived from Syria,…

    Qutaiba Barhamji / France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Going After Refuge

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Film Festival 2020

    A wounded soldier tries desperately to escape the battlefield as war rages all around him.

    Ibrahim Abazeed, Barış Elçin / Turkey / Short Narrative

  • The Goofylympics

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Film Festival 2020

    The animal-only Olympic games are taking place in the middle of the jungle, but the lion and ti…

    Salomé Hammann / France / Short Narrative