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  • Sonita

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2016

    In Tehran, where it is illegal for women to sing, 18-year-old Afghan refugee Sonita dreams of b…

    Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami / Iran, Germany, Switzerland / Feature Documentary

  • Sounds for Mazin

    Hilal - ages 13+ - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2013

    An operation allows Mazin, who is almost completely deaf, to hear sounds he has never heard bef…

    Ingrid Kamerling / Netherlands, The / Short Documentary

  • Summer Fasting

    Ajyal Competition, Ajyal at Vox - Ajyal Film Festival 2021

    Scorching beneath the summer sun, eleven-year-old Kader is determined to observe Ramadan for th…

    Abdenoure Ziane / France / Short Narrative

  • Tall as the Baobab Tree

    Contemporary World Cinema - Doha Tribecca Film Festival 2012

    Coumba and her 11-year-old sister Debo are the first girls to leave their family’s remote Seneg…

    Jeremy Teicher / Senegal, United States of America / Feature Narrative

  • Tangency

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2016

    Young Hikmat barely makes ends meet by collecting recyclables from dumpsters. When he has a run…

    Bashi Kasawneh / Jordan / Short Narrative

  • Tariq

    Arab Short Film Competition - Doha Tribecca Film Festival 2012

    Tariq, a teenager, wants to show his best friend that he is a man, but his mother gets in his w…

    Alaa Mosbah / Egypt, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Temsah

    Made in Qatar - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2014

    Abdulaziz – nicknamed Temsah (Arabic for ‘crocodile’) – is driven to express himself through dr…

    Latifa Al-Darwish, Rouda Al-Meghaiseeb / Qatar / Short Documentary

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