The Doha Film Institute’s Qumra talent and project incubator event returned as a 100% in-person event last week, bringing participants together face-to-face in Doha for the first time since it was forced online in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. “It’s been great to have everyone back gain.
I keep pinching myself that it’s still happening. I could not be happier with how it has gone,” said DFI CEO Fatma Hassan Alremaihi.
The ninth edition, running from March 10 to 15, gathered 44 DFI grantee projects across all formats and in various stages of development and production, accompanied by their first, second and third-time directors and producers.
The DFI is one of the main sources of funding for independent cinema in the Middle East and North Africa, a region with very little state support for independent film. “We have between 400 to 500 submissions per cycle, and we have two cycles a year.
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