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A father takes his two sons out on a trip to the desert to go hunting, but the results are not quite what he was expecting.
Out in the beautiful quiet of the windswept dunes, a man teaches his young sons the traditional desert skills of tracking and hunting. Frustration leads to an apparently harmless struggle between the two brothers – but then carelessness brings about sudden disaster. Alternating calm with calamity, adolescence with adulthood, and knowhow with panic, ‘Kashta’ captures a seemingly simple story about an innocent plan gone horribly wrong.

Credits

Director
A.J. Al Thani
Screenwriter
A.J. Al Thani
Producer
Jaime Siordia
Production Company
The Film House
Cast
Mansour Al Nahdi, Ali Al Nahdi, Ahmad Nasser Afif Alyafei

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
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