Test - Qumra Projects

Industry programme

Qumra is our talent incubator supporting projects across feature films, series and shorts—offering creative and professional mentorship at every stage of development.

During Qumra, nearly 200 global industry experts will advise participating filmmakers through tailored sessions, work-in-progress screenings and curated meetings. The programme focuses on first- and second-time directors, drawing participation from over forty countries.

Among this year’s selection are emerging talents from Qatar and a wider community of filmmakers nurtured through the Doha Film Institute’s funding and training ecosystem.

Feature Narrative

Amara

Darine hosts a horoscope show on a politically affiliated radio station in Beirut, living in her imaginary bubble. That bubble is burst when she is asked to present the news and cover the dark reality of a country in crisis.

Feature Documentary or Essay

Bardi

‘Bardi’ follows an itinerant brotherhood of riders across central Morocco. The film moves between documentary and fiction and is an ode to another form of community- where the dust of the everyday lifts into ritual, and ritual into myth.

Feature Documentary or Essay

Choreography of a Tyrant

The discovery of censored images of Hafez al-Assad exposes how a single flaw can unravel a carefully engineered myth.

Short Narrative

A Disguised Practice

In an alternate Qatar where pearls have vanished, and men disappear at sea, a history teacher uncovers his grandfather’s unfinished legacy and is drawn toward the water, as his body begins to change and the sea calls him to continue a journey no one returns from.

Short Narrative

A Donkey Will

A retelling of a folktale, ‘A Donkey Will’ reimagines the figure of Nasreddin, a folkloric jester figure, in modern-day Bukhara, where he is a wanderer in a city that has lost him his donkey and his wit.

Feature Documentary or Essay

Everything She Didn’t Say

At four, my journalist father was murdered by terrorists. At 32, I finally confront the images of his death. Revisiting a family and national tragedy from Algeria’s years of terrorism, through denial and humour, we rebuild ourselves.

Feature Narrative

Fuxi: Joy in Four Chapters

On a seesaw, Sun and Moon rise and fall, witnessing four feasts and festivities spanning four millennia, where the living and the dead, gods and ghosts unite in a simple, shared joy.

Short Narrative

Ghafleh

Struggling to make up for lost time, a dedicated watchmaker races to craft his daughter’s dream watch before their seconds together tick away.

Feature Narrative

Girl of Wind

In Tunisia, Aida, an eighteen-year-old girl, secretly escapes a suffocating reality through skateboarding. When her dying father returns after years of absence, she must confront the past and make a choice that will change her life forever.

Feature Narrative

The Guardian

In a remote wadi of the Libyan desert, two brothers arrive, one suffering from a mysterious illness. Searching for the elusive mountain sheep, the waddan, their only hope is a solitary shepherd unwilling to guide anyone to it.

Feature Narrative

Hamlet From the Slums (working title)

Ahmed, the son of the king of Cairo’s junkyard, must confront his powerful father after the ghost of his murdered best friend appears during a moulid and reveals that Ahmed’s father is responsible for his death.

Feature Narrative

House of the Wind

Josette, 75, lonely in Yaoundé, tries to lure her children in Europe home while overseeing her son’s house. When she befriends Sarah, a neighbour, their growing bond upends everything Josette believed about family.

TV Series

Arab Love

An Egyptian single mother and a Tunisian flight attendant fall in love online, triggering a cross-border war of exes, families, and social media mobs, where intimacy, lies, and algorithms collide, and loving someone becomes a public act of rebellion.

TV Series

Captain Shedeed

When a mysterious virus threatens children’s lives, an ordinary father becomes ‘Captain Shedeed’, facing his nemesis, Dr. Sam, in a race against time to choose between fear and responsibility, and to prove power comes from courage and moral choice.

TV Series

Echoes

‘Echoes’ is a supernatural international anthology where myth collides with modern life. Across cultures, legends return through women’s lives, exposing fear, desire, and the secrets societies bury.

TV Series

The Gate of Resurrection

A grief-stricken video editor secretly sabotaging state TV discovers an underground Assassin order that hails him as its Chosen One, forcing him into a deadly uprising to save his condemned brother.

TV Series

Legacy of Light: House of Wisdom

A young Al-Khwarizmi journeys from Central Asia to 9th-century Baghdad, where he revolutionises mathematics inside the House of Wisdom. His breakthrough discovery of the algorithm changes history and lays the hidden foundation of our modern world.

TV Series

Like a Feather in the Breeze

Although Tarek and Laila are both searching for their soulmates, they often cross paths without ever truly meeting. So Salwa, the narrator, decides to step in, setting off a series of playful comic attempts to finally bring them together.

TV Series

A Lover's Manifesto

An animated history of Beirut, from its emergence as a modern city in 1860 to its invasion in 1982. Forged by emancipation and revolution, the city is ultimately fractured and consumed by civil war.

TV Series

Visions of the After

In a futuristic federalised Levant ruled by the ruthless ARC regime, a young travelling saleswoman, Dalal, finds herself at the intercross of a crisis, a far-reaching conspiracy, and a boiling rebellion. Navigating fractured territories, her struggle becomes inseparable from the fight against oppression.

TV Series

The Walled Off Hotel VR Experience

Trapped in Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel, you team up with Ka, a cynical, flightless parrot, to solve puzzles, uncover hidden stories and confront life behind the wall, where art, humour and politics meet.

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