Ajyal Film Festival 2023

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  • Bhutto

    World Panorama - Doha Tribecca Film Festival 2010

    Political biopics too often fall into either hagiography or demonization, extremes mostly avoid…

    Duane Baughman, Johnny O'Hara / U.S.A., U.K. / Feature Documentary

  • The Bleaching Syndrome

    Ajyal Competition, Made in Qatar - Ajyal Film Festival 2018

    Eiman Mirghani, an Afro-Arab filmmaker living in Qatar, sets out to make a documentary about a…

    Eiman Mirghani / Qatar / Short Documentary

  • Born in Syria

    Special Screening - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2016

    Since civil war started in Syria in 2011, an estimated nine million Syrians have fled their hom…

    Hernán Zin / Denmark, Spain / Feature Documentary

  • CHIRI/Trace

    Special Screening - Doha Tribecca Film Festival 2012

    ‘Trace’ is an unusual and very personal documentary focusing on the aging foster mother of extr…

    Naomi Kawase / Japan / Feature Documentary

  • Canary

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Film Festival 2021

    Canary birds are highly sensitive to their environments. Because of this, they were often used…

    Pierre-Hugues Dallaire, Benoit Therriault / Canada / Short Animation

  • Carlotta's Face

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Film Festival 2018

    When Carlotta looks in the mirror, she doesn’t recognise herself. She suffers from ‘Face Blindn…

    Valentin Riedl, Frédéric Schuld / Germany / Short Documentary

  • Central Airport THF

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Film Festival 2018

    Built in the 1920s and remodelled as an architectural showcase in the 1930s, Berlin Tempelhof A…

    Karim Aïnouz / Germany, France, Brazil / Feature Documentary

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