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Doha Film Institute’s Qumra Event Kicks Off With Messages Of Solidarity For Gaza

The Doha Film Institute(DFI) kicked off its 10th Qumra talent and project incubator meeting on a somber note on Friday as its organizers spoke out about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. “While the situation continues to worsen in Palestine and countries throughout the region including Yemen, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria, providing a platform to acknowledge the courage and resilience of those fighting against oppression becomes even more important,” said Hassan Al Remaihi. There are a number of projects by Palestinian filmmakers at Qumra this year including Ahmad Saleh’s Trouble Magnet, about a teenager who rides an imaginary donkey from Palestine to Germany; Gaza-born Mohammed Almughanni’s doc Son of the Streets, about a stateless child living a Beirut refugee camp; Mayar Hamdan and Shaima Al Tamimi’s The Myth of Mahmoud about a Palestinian family that has called Doha its home for 60 years and is now contemplating its next move, and Saleh Saadi’s TV series Dyouf, about a family run guesthouse in their Bedouin village.

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