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Mohaq Short Film Programme
The new moon is full of hidden secrets and endless possibilities. The critical minds of young people will be challenged and stimulated by these films, which are appropriate for audiences 8 years of age and older.
Out in the quiet desert, a father teaches his sons how to hunt, but a careless struggle between the two brothers leads to disaster.
Out in the beautiful quiet of the desert, a man teaches his young sons how to track and hunt. Frustration leads to an apparently harmless struggle between the two brothers – but their carelessness brings about sudden disaster. Qatari filmmaker AJ Al Thani’s film strikes just the right balance of calm and calamity, adolescence and adulthood, knowhow and panic to tell a seemingly simple story with a sense of gravity that will echo with anyone who has seen an innocent plan go horribly wrong.

Credits

Director
A.J. Al Thani
Screenwriter
A.J. Al Thani
Producer
Jaime Siordia
Executive Producer
Justin Kramer
Cinematographer
Christopher Moon
Editor
Menna Kamel
Production Company
The Film House
Production Designer
Lauren McCarthy
Sound
Sasha Parsons
Cast
Mansour Al Nahdi, Ahmad Nasser Afif Alyafei, Ali Al Nahdi

About the Director

A.J. Al Johara Al Thani
A.J. (Al Johara) Al-Thani is an award-winning Qatari filmmaker, multimedia artist, and entrepreneur. She began her filmmaking journey through workshops with the Doha Film Institute in 2010. She later graduated from Northwestern University with a concentration in film and marketing. Her short film ‘The Black Veil’ premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival (2020), and she is currently working on her fi