DOHA: The fourth installment of Doha Film Institute’s (DFI) year-round series, Hekayat Khaleejiya (Khaleeji Stories), will screen four award-winning short Khaleeji films on October 11-12 at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA).
The film appreciation programme that showcases films for the Doha community and helps encourage film production in Qatar and the region, will show This is London and Sabeel (the UAE), Sanctity (Saudi Arabia) and Bader (Qatar).
This is London is directed by Mohammed Rashed Bu Ali, selected as one of the 24 most promising Asian directors for participation in the Asian Film Academy. He won the British Council’s 2012 Young Creative Entrepreneur Award and his film won the third prize in the Official Short Film Competition at the fifth Gulf Film Festival in Dubai.
Sabeel, directed by Khalid Al Mahmood, has won awards, including the Golden Prize for the Short Film at the seventh Festival International Du Film Oriental De Genève 2012, Best Short Fiction, Best Screenplay, Best Director at the first GCC Film Festival 2012, Best Script and the first prize at the fourth Gulf Film Festival 2011 and the Emirati Muhr second prize at the seventh Dubai International Film Festival.
Sanctity is directed by Saudi actress and filmmaker Ahd who was recently a jury member for the Emirates film competition in Abu Dhabi. The film won the 2012 DTFF Arab Shorts Competition Development Award and Bader, directed by Sara Al Saadi, Maaria Assami and Latifa Al Darwish, won the 2012 DTFF Made in Qatar Development Award.
Tickets are on sale online at www.dohafilminstitute.com/hekayat and at the DFI Ticket Outlet at the MIA on October 11 from 2pm to 8pm and October 12 from noon to 8pm. Tickets are priced at QR35 and QR25 for students.
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