Screenwriter/producer/director James Schamus (The Ice Storm, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Indignation) and acclaimed documentary filmmaker Joshua…
The Doha Film Institute, in partnership with the Torino Film Lab, will host two script development and screenwriting workshops to mentor local and regional…
Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Winter Sleep) and Russian filmmaker Alexsandr Sokurov (Faust, Russian Ark) have been…
The Doha Film Institute (DFI) is organizing a special screening to celebrate the 25th year anniversary of one of the most popular love stories ever told,…
The Doha Film Institute is organising a special screening of ‘The Sleeping Tree’, the feature film debut of Bahraini filmmaker Mohammed Rashed Bu Ali at the…
Doha, Qatar; December 21, 2015: The Doha Film Institute today announced recipients of the Fall 2015 session of its grants programme…
The Doha Film Institute and Qatar Tourism Authority have joined hands to salute the nation with a feature-length documentary in which the people of Qatar are…
Seventeen films made with the support of the Doha Film Institute, including two co-financed projects and 15 recipients of the Institute’s Grants programme,…
Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase (Suzaku, Still The Water, An) and Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel (La Ciénaga, The Headless Woman) are the first…
An endearing Australian movie about a 11-year-old boy who must come up with funds to enter a world paper plane championship competition; a deeply moving…
The filmmakers behind Bilal spoke passionately in a wide-ranging roundtable discussion about the making of their breath-taking animated feature which had its…
A captivating observational documentary charting the ‘life story’ of a palm tree and a short narrative that mixes live action and animation depicting what…
Conflicts, economic inequality and physical or mental challenges limit the involvement of a large section of youth in film and other cultural pursuits. The…
The third Ajyal Youth Film Festival, presented by the Doha Film Institute, opens doors to its much-awaited ‘Family Weekend’ activities on Friday and Saturday…
Today (Thursday, December 3, 2015), the third Ajyal Youth Film Festival, presented by the Doha Film Institute, marks the first of its kind inclusive cinema…
