DOHA: Doha Film Institute (DFI) will showcase a dynamic selection of documentaries next month, beginning with Hekayat Khaleejiya with special focus on autism.
Taking place on May 1 and 2 at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) Auditorium, Hekayat Khaleejiya will include short documentary ‘One in Five’ by Qatari director Jawaher Al Khater and Emirati feature documentary ‘The Brain That Sings’ by Amal Agroobi.
‘One in Five’ tells the story of a Qatari mother who tries to make connection with her young autistic son while ‘The Brain That Sings’ follows the lives of six-year-old Khalifa and eighteen-year-old Mohammed, two autistic boys in the United Arab Emirates, as they go through three months of music therapy. The screenings of the films will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
From May 15 to 21 Katara DFI Cinema screens the winner of the Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Audience Award and Academy Award nominee, ‘The Square’ by Jehane Noujaim. The film follows a group of Egyptian revolutionaries who battle leaders and regimes and risk their lives to build a new society.
Docs in Focus continues with the screening of ‘Bus 174’ as part of the Qatar Brazil Cinema Showcase on May 29 and 30 in partnership with Qatar Museums Authority to celebrate the Qatar Brazil 2014 Year of Culture. ‘Bus 174’ is an intimate and shocking documentary about one of the most infamous and tragic crimes in Brazil’s recent history, when 21-year-old Sandro do Nascimento took several bus passengers hostage in broad daylight as the entire nation watched the events unfold on live television.
The MIA Exhibition Series on May 8 and 9 features the heartwarming documentary, ‘Brooklyn Castle,’ that tells the remarkable and improbable true story of I.S. 318, a junior-high school in Brooklyn.
Defying stereotypes, it has the highest-ranked junior-high chess team in the nation. The exhibition series features a selection of films to complement the Museum of Islamic Art’s current exhibition ‘Kings & Pawns: Board Games from India to Spain.’
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