Doha Film Institute
Made in Qatar Film Programme (Schools)
Made in Qatar Film Programme I
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, thoughtful essays. The films were made independently, through Qatar University or Northwestern University in Qatar, or with the support of Doha Film Institute’s workshops and funding programmes.
Hilal Short Film Programme (Schools)
Mohaq Short Film Programme (Schools)
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
Cristopher 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