2024 Qumra Film Festival Highlights by POV Engage

Arriving in Doha

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Museum of Islamic Art

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Filming near the festival hotel

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Local Theater where we the WIP screenings were held

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Spotting Qumra on Al-Jazeera News at the airport on my way back to the States

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Inside the Museum of Islamic Art

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A mural in Doha

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Preparing for Ramadan

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Qumra festival poster and masterclass attendees

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Museum of Islamic Art (the architecture is chef’s kiss)

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The Museum of Islamic Art sits on a stand-alone island and is built off an artificial peninsula and near the Doha Corniche waterfront promenade

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The food was delicious!

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Watching the sunrise

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Received a warm welcome

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Attending a masterclass by director Jim Sheridan

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1st night in Doha near the festival hotel

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Streets of Doha seen from the seat of my Uber

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Work-in-Progress Film Screenings

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Closed preview screenings of 20-minute excerpts from feature-length Qumra projects in the final stages of post-production. Twenty-minute excerpts of projects are presented for select festival programmers, sales agents, distributors, broadcasters, post-production funds and VoD platforms.

Hawa by Najiba Noori and Rasul Noori
Naseem, Fight with Grace by Ana Naomi de Sousa
Let's Play Soldiers by Mariam Al-Dhubhani
Do You Love Me by Lana Daher
The Myth of Mahmoud by Mayar Hamdan and Shaima Al Tamimi
The Revolution by Min Min Hein
Son of the Streets by Mohammed Almughanni

1:1 Filmmaker Meetings

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Presenter at Working Breakfast Roundtable Meetings: Face to Face with the Documentary Initiatives

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Moderated by Nina Rodriguez

Guest Speakers:

Asad Muhammad (POV American doc inc.)

Brigid O’Shea (Documentary Association Europe)

Brandon Harisson (Words and Pictures)

Projects:

Khartoum - Ibrahim Ahmad (Snoopy)

Niemeyer 4 Ever - Marine Vaillant

House No. 7 - Hazar Yazji

After Tahar - Soufiane Adel

After Tahar - Damien Monnier

The Revolution - Charlotte Reekers

Son of the Streets - Mohammed Almughanni

Hawa - Afsaneh Salari

My Mother & I – Marwa Tammam

House No. 7 (director: Rama Abdi)

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Do You Love Me (director: Lana Daher)

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The Myth of Mahmoud (co-directors: Mayar Hamdan and Shaima Al Tamimi)

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Khartoum (co-directors: Rawia Alhaq, Anas Saeed, Timmea Ahmed, Ibrahim Snoopy)

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Son of The Streets (director: Mohammed Almughanni)

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Qumra Master Classes

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Renowned film luminaries convened in Doha to share their insights in a series of Master Classes offering invaluable guidance for the benefit of participating filmmakers, industry professionals and audiences.

I attended master classes with: 1) Jim Sheridan an Irish playwright, screenwriter, film director, and producer; 2) Martín Hernández an internationally revered supervising sound editor and sound designer.