Ajyal Film Festival 2023

All films

All Countries

  • Koshk

    Hilal - ages 13+ - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2014

    An abandoned mother faints while carrying wood only to be saved by traveller that resembles her…

    Abdulla Al Kaabi / United Arab Emirates / Short Narrative

  • Kuap

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Film Festival 2019

    Life is an adventure, not a race. In this slightly delayed coming-of-age story, an adorable tad…

    Nils Hedinger / Switzerland / Short Narrative

  • Kuma

    Contemporary World Cinema - Doha Tribecca Film Festival 2012

    Director Umut Daǧ’s wonderfully accomplished first feature is a passionately acted study of lov…

    Umut Dağ / Austria / Feature Narrative

  • L'Mrayet

    Arab Short Film Competition - Doha Tribecca Film Festival 2012

    Under Tunisia’s totalitarian regime that began in 1987, Boum Mrayet is born into a world where…

    Nadia Raïs / Tunisia / Short Narrative

  • The Lady

    Special Screening - Doha Tribecca Film Festival 2011

    The true story of Aung San Suu Kyi, the woman at the core of Burma’s democracy movement, and he…

    Luc Besson / France, United Kingdom / Feature Narrative

  • Lamb

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2015

    After Ephraïm’s mother dies, his father must go to Addis Ababa to find work, so he sends his ni…

    Yared Zeleke / France, Ethiopia, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Land of Ashes

    Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Film Festival 2019

    Selva lives in a Caribbean coastal town. After the abrupt disappearance of her only motherly fi…

    Sofía Quirós Ubeda / Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, France / Feature Narrative