Ajyal Film Festival 2023

All films

All Countries

  • Tough

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2017

    In ‘Tough’, a daughter examines the fallout of her mother’s youth, when she experienced the mas…

    Jennifer Zheng / United Kingdom / Short Narrative

  • Town of Runners

    Contemporary World Cinema - Doha Tribecca Film Festival 2012

    Bejoki is a small, impoverished town in Ethiopia – and it also happens to be the training groun…

    Jerry Rothwell / Ethiopia, United Kingdom / Feature Documentary

  • Traces

    Special Screening - Ajyal Film Festival 2020

    Thirty-six thousand years ago, a drawn animal was a hunted one. Karou, the animal tracer, and h…

    Hugo Frassetto, Sophie Tavert Macian / France, Belgium / Short Narrative

  • Tracks

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2017

    A mother sobs in a taxi, holding her young son in her arms. Something terrible has happened – b…

    Elina Fessa / Greece / Short Narrative

  • Train to Peace

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2017

    An Iraqi man considers his nation’s recent past, when its people have been stripped of their af…

    Jakob Weyde, Jost Althoff / Germany / Short Narrative

  • Trances

    Special Screening - Doha Tribecca Film Festival 2012

    In the 70s, Nass Al Ghiwane’s melding of regional musical styles and political messages made th…

    Ahmed El Maanouni / Morocco / Feature Documentary

  • Transformation

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Film Festival 2018

    A young disabled man who lives with his mother struggles to come to terms with his limitations.…

    Yousef Al Bagshi / Kuwait / Short Narrative