• 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

• CodeGirl

  Special Screening - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2016

  Worldwide, only about four per cent of tech start-up companies are headed by women. Enter Techn…

  

  Lesley Chilcott / United States of America / Feature Documentary

• The Eagle Huntress

  Ajyal Competition, Special Screening - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2016

  For centuries, the peoples of Mongolia have captured and trained golden eagles to hunt for them…

  

  Otto Bell / United Kingdom, United States of America, Mongolia / Feature Documentary

• Fire at Sea

  Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2016

  Over the past 20 years, the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa has been the first stop on the mig…

  

  Gianfranco Rosi / Italy, France / Feature Documentary

• Life, Animated

  Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2016

  Diagnosed with autism at the age of three, Owen Suskind learned to understand the world around…

  

  Roger Ross Williams / United States of America, France / Feature Documentary

• Listen to the Silence

  Ajyal Competition - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2016

  Nine-year-old Luka lives in a boarding school for deaf children. Somewhat hyperactive, the youn…

  

  Mariam Chachia / Georgia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Naledi: A Baby Elephant's Tale

  Special Screening - Ajyal Youth Film Festival 2016

  There is much jubilation when Naledi the elephant is born in a safari camp in Botswana – in par…

  

  Ben Bowie, Geoff Luck / United States of America, Botswana / Feature Documentary

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