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Doha Film Institute Launches Ambitious International Festival for Indie Cinema With $300,000 in Prizes
The Doha Film Institute has launched an ambitious international festival for global indie cinema, with $300,000 in prizes.
The fest transforms the DFI’s existing Ajyal Film Festival dedicated to youth and family-friendly cinema into a more ambitious international event for a broader audience. The reconfigured event is being endowed with a total prize pot of over $300,000 that places it on a monetary par with Saudi Arabia’s more glitzy Red Sea Film festival in Jeddah. “This is going to be an ongoing project” said the DFI’s artistic advisor Palestinian auteur Elia Suleiman, who noted that the event will have a similar spirit to Qumra and has no desire to compete with the other fest’s in the Arab world, at least not in terms of glitz and glamour.
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