A Hero

Special Screening | Ajyal at Vox | Ajyal at Katara | Opening Night - Ajyal Film Festival 2021

Rahim finds himself in jail for incurring a business debt he is unable to repay. While on a two-day leave,

Asghar Farhadi / Iran, France / Feature Narrative

Asteroid

Ajyal Competition | Ajyal at Vox - Ajyal Film Festival 2021

Ebrahim is only twelve years of age but bears much of the responsibility for his household of five younger siblings with his mother.

Mehdi Hoseinivand Aalipour / Iran / Feature Narrative

Brother's Keeper

Ajyal Competition | Ajyal at Vox - Ajyal Film Festival 2021

Yusuf and his best friend Memo are pupils at a boarding school for Kurdish boys in Eastern Anatolia.

Ferit Karahan / Turkey / Feature Narrative

Child's Play

Drive-In Cinema - Ajyal Film Festival 2021

Gunned down by Detective Mike Norris, dying murderer Charles Lee Ray uses black magic to put his soul inside a doll named Chucky—which Karen Barclay then buys for her young son, Andy.

Tom Holland / United States of America / Feature Narrative

Feathers

Ajyal Competition | Ajyal at Vox - Ajyal Film Festival 2021

When a magic trick goes terribly awry at a children’s birthday party, the autocratic father of an impoverished family is turned abruptly into a chicken.

Omar El Zohairy / France, Egypt, Netherlands, Greece / Feature Narrative

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Drive-In Cinema - Ajyal Film Festival 2021

An adaptation of the first of J.K. Rowling's popular children's novels about Harry Potter, a boy who learns on his eleventh birthday that he is the orphaned son of two powerful wizards and possesses unique magical powers of his own.

Chris Columbus / United Kingdom, United States of America / Feature Narrative

Land of Dreams

Special Screening | Ajyal at Vox | Ajyal at Katara - Ajyal Film Festival 2021

‘Land of Dreams’ takes place in the near future in a small town in America. Simin is an Iranian immigrant who works for US Census Bureau,

Shirin Neshat, Shoja Azari / United States of America, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege

Ajyal Competition | Ajyal at Vox - Ajyal Film Festival 2021

Yarmouk in Damascus sheltered the largest Palestinian refugee camp in the world from 1957 to 2018.

Abdallah Al-Khatib / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

Made in Qatar presented by Ooredoo Film Programme

Made in Qatar | Ajyal at Vox | Ajyal at Katara - Ajyal Film Festival 2021

The Ajyal Film Festival is delighted to showcase and celebrate the thriving filmmaking scene in Qatar. The programme presented this year features some internationally shown and award-winning short documentaries and narratives.

Made in USA

Special Screening | Ajyal at Katara - Ajyal Film Festival 2021

A selection of the very best in contemporary American short-form filmmaking.

School of Hope

Ajyal Competition | Ajyal at Vox - Ajyal Film Festival 2021

In the vast expanse of desert, East of Atlas Mountains in Morocco, seasonal rain and snow once supported livestock, but now the drought seems to never end.

Mohamed El Aboudi / Finland, France, Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

Writing with Fire

Ajyal Competition | Ajyal at Vox - Ajyal Film Festival 2021

Amid a crowded, patriarchal news landscape emerges India's only newspaper run by Dalit (low caste) women.

Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh / India / Feature Documentary