Doha Film Institute
Made in Qatar presented by Occidental Petroleum Film Programme II
Once again, the Ajyal Youth Film Festival is pleased to celebrate the exciting state of filmmaking at home with our annual slate of work made right here in Qatar. This year, we present two programmes of shorts, including narratives, documentaries and thoughtful essays.
School Screening - Made in Qatar (13-17)
The ever-changing urban landscape of Doha is dreamily contemplated in this wordless, documentary essay, in which order is made of chaos and a sense of peace overcomes the frenetic pace of progress.
Through gorgeous superimposition, the ever-changing urban landscape of Doha under construction is dreamily contemplated in this wordless, wonderfully languid documentary essay. Images of cranes, rising towers and roadways in flux – constants in contemporary Doha’s personality – create a striking, dynamic collage that is reminiscent of a day’s wandering through Qatar’s crown city. As morning becomes daytime and sunset leads to night, order is made of chaos and a sense of peace is imposed on the frenetic pace of progress.

Credits

Director
Hadeer Omar, Idris Elhassan
Screenwriter
Idris Elhassan, Hadeer Omar
Cinematographer
Idris Elhassan, Hadeer Omar, Pablo Iraburu, Miguel Garcia, Jaser Alagha
Editor
Idris Elhassan, Hadeer Omar
Production Company
Doha Film Institute
Music
Mikel Salas

About the Director

Hadeer Omar
Hadeer Omar (1988, Alexandria) is a new media artist, designer, and educator. Omar holds an MFA in Design and BFA in Graphic Design. Omar’s passion for storytelling and cultural movements crosses disciplines within academia and entertainment. Her research explores cultural identity, memories, the self, and narratives artfully through immersive XR media and technologies, video art installations, mo
Idris Elhassan
Hadeer Omar is an Egyptian timebased media artist based in Qatar. Recently, her visual diaries were displayed at the 202020 exhibition at VCU Arts Qatar and at Calligraphies in Conversation 2017 at the San Francisco Public Library.<br /> <br /> Idris Elhassan is an aspiring Sudanese filmmaker who has a passion for experimental and abstract material that explores domains such as value systems, scie