Ajyal Film Festival 2023

All films

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  • A Shout from Within

    Mohaq - ages 8+ - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2013

    Eight students from the Filipino community in Qatar – all from different family backgrounds, a…

    Jan Xavier Pacle / Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Shringar

    Made in Qatar - Ajyal Film Festival 2020

    A young girl’s nightmare serves as an allegory for the real-life horror of child labour in the…

    Muhammed Noufal / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • The Silence

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2016

    A young Kurdish refugee accompanies her mother on a visit to the hospital, but is terrified tha…

    Ali Asgari, Farnoosh Samadi / Italy, France / Short Narrative

  • Silence

    Ajyal Competition, Ajyal at Vox - Ajyal Film Festival 2021

    A young Kurdish girl who has recently become deaf from an infection struggles with her disabili…

    Brwa Vahabpour / Norway, Iraq / Short Narrative

  • Silver Linings Playbook

    Special Screening - Doha Tribecca Film Festival 2012

    Fresh out of jail, Pat (Bradley Cooper) moves in with his football-crazed parents (Robert De Ni…

    David O. Russell / United States of America / Feature Narrative

  • Sing

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2017

    When young Zsófi is told by Miss Erika, the choirmistress at her school, she is not good enough…

    Kristóf Deák / Hungary / Short Narrative

  • Sink or Swim

    Hilal - ages 13+ - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2014

    In the strange atmosphere of an empty, abandoned swimming pool, friends Yinka and Glenn come ac…

    Michiel Vaanhold / Netherlands / Short Narrative