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Features"A champion of under-represented voices": Doha Film Institute’s Qumra celebrates its 10th edition
The Qatari project incubator has become an indicator of films that will launch at major festivals.
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NewsToni Collette joins Qumra Masters programme as full project selection revealed
Qumra projects from Alaa Eddine Aljem, Ana Naomi de Sousa.
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NewsClaire Denis, Leos Carax, Jim Sheridan among Qumra Masters for 10th edition
Atom Egoyan, Martin Hernandez will also be Masters at the event.
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NewsDoha Film Institute unveils 44 projects in latest funding round, including ‘Naseem, Fight With Grace’
Three UK co-production features among the 44 titles.
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NewsMichael Winterbottom on slow pace of UK filmmaking, streamer influence on indies, future projects
“In the heyday of cinema, everyone was making a film a year.”
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NewsCostume designer Jacqueline West describes hiding a secret item in Timothee Chalamet’s ‘Dune’ outfit
West has worked with Scorsese, Inarritu, Malick; and will design for Saudi project Neom.
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NewsStephen Frears’ ‘Billy Wilder And Me’ aiming for 2024 shoot, says Qumra master Christopher Hampton
Hampton gave updates on ‘Heart of A Soldier’, ‘White Chameleon’ and ‘Dalila’.
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NewsDavid Parfitt teases ‘Hamlet, Prince Of Wales’ film, talks North East Screen plans
”Our Hamlet is set in the UK in the future; politics have collapsed, the monarchy have taken over again.”
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NewsLynne Ramsay updates on ‘Stone Mattress’, ‘Polaris’, ‘Moby Dick’; talks Ezra Miller connection (exclusive)
Scottish filmmaker “hoping” to make Margaret Atwood adaptation ‘Stone Mattress’ this year.
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FeaturesHow a refreshed Qumra 2023 is making the most of the global spotlight
The Middle East project incubator returns in-person for the first time since 2019.
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NewsDoha Film Institute unveils 44 projects for Qumra 2023
This year’s edition takes place in-person March 10-15 and online March 19-21.
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NewsFirst in-person Qumra in four years secures Masters including Lynne Ramsay, David Parfitt
Christopher Hampton, Michael Winterbottom also among speakers at the Doha incubator.
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FeaturesIndian filmmaker Vinay Shukla talks TIFF Docs “newsroom thriller” ‘While We Watched’
The documentary maker reveals his fears for independent journalism in India, as chronicled in the TIFF Docs entry.
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FeaturesQumra mentor Ghassan Salhab talks about his early career and his new Beirut vampire film
Senegalese-born, Lebanese-French director talks about his hands-off mentoring approach.
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FeaturesSyrian filmmaker Anas Khalaf on his Qumra feature project ‘The Photographer’
‘The Photographer’ is the second in a planned trilogy about the Syrian conflict following ‘The Translator’ in 2020.
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Features“We wanted to make a punk film,” Ariel Escalante Meza talks ‘Domingo And The Mist’
Second feature revolves around a man refusing to leave land frequented by the ghost of dead wife.
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FeaturesWhy personal stories dominate Qumra’s TV selection
Six Doha Film Insitute-backed TV projects are being showcased in Qumra this year.
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NewsDamien Ounouri on his Algerian costume drama and Cannes hopeful ‘The Last Queen’
The feature is being showcased as a work in progress at Qumra this week.
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News“Don’t lose hope” - Qumra mentors Talal Derki, Tala Hadid, Annemarie Jacir offer words of wisdom
Award-winning filmmakers are helpin filmmakers develop their projects at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra event.
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FeaturesFive Qatari talents to watch
The initiatives of the Doha Film Institute are helping to inspire a wealth of new voices.
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