All Qumra articles
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NewsDoha Film Festival to launch in November 2025
Full details will be revealed at next year’s Cannes Film Festival.
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NewsDoha Film Institute unveils 44 projects for 2024 spring grants at Cannes
The selection includes 25 women filmmakers, and 14 returning grantees.
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NewsDoha Film Institute Qumra Special 2024
The Doha Film Institute’s (DFI) incubator event that took place March 1-6.
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FeaturesHow Qumra’s “core idea” has sustained the project incubator through its 10th edition
“We wanted a place where filmmakers would be inspired and would be able to progress their films.”
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NewsAtom Egoyan hopes for a new Armenian wave of filmmakers; has desire to direct a musical
Egoyan discussed topics including artificial intelligence during his Qumra masterclass.
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News‘Birdman’ sound designer Martin Hernandez details upcoming Netflix project ‘The Master Of Monarchs’
The documentary series follows an environmental activist murdered in 2020 for standing up to organised crime groups.
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NewsClaire Denis talks new Africa-set film ‘The Fence’, and why she will never retire
“The best way to retire is to die. I would like to go on making films.”
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NewsFrench director Leos Carax says it is “easier to take money from producers you don’t like”
Carax discussed his upcoming mid-length film C’est pas moi in Qumra.
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NewsToni Collette talks upcoming projects as actor, producer and director in Qumra
Acting and directing makes ”one less person you have to communicate with” says Collette.
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NewsJim Sheridan: “The whole film industry is in the emergency room”
Irish director Sheridan updates on multiple projects; talks Daniel Day-Lewis, streamers, Israel-Hamas conflict.
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NewsDoha Film Institute execs call for ceasefire to “genocide in Gaza” at Qumra opening
DFI CEO Fatma Al-Remaihi and artistic advisor Elia Suleiman spoke on the ongoing conflict.
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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.