Ajyal Film Festival 2023

Ajyal Film Festival 2022

  • An Invisible Apprentice

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Film Festival 2022

    Despite the shimmering lights, upbeat music and assumed fun of her roller disco class—something…

    Emilia Herbst / Argentina / Short Narrative

  • Burros

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Film Festival 2022

    In southern Arizona, twenty miles from the Mexico border, a young Indigenous girl discovers a H…

    Jefferson Stein / United States of America / Short Narrative

  • The Eternal Melody

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Film Festival 2022

    When an elderly woman living high in the mountains with her grown son is visited in a dream by…

    Niranjan Raj Bhetwal / Nepal / Short Narrative

  • Fairplay

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Film Festival 2022

    A shy teenager in search of recognition, a man ready to do anything to win a car, and a senior…

    Zoel Aeschbacher / Switzerland, France / Short Narrative

  • Farrucas

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Film Festival 2022

    Hadoum, Fatema, Sheima and Sokayna are four teenagers from El Puche, a marginalised suburb in t…

    Ian de la Rosa / Spain, United States of America / Short Narrative

  • Five Stars

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Film Festival 2022

    Carlos and Toñi live in a tiny apartment in a marginalised neighbourhood in Portugal. They have…

    Roberto Jiménez Bozada / Spain / Short Narrative

  • Happy New Year, Jim

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Film Festival 2022

    It’s New Year’s Eve. Friends Jim and Morten are playing online video games all night long, like…

    Andrea Gatopoulos / Italy / Short Narrative