The decision to present Qumra 2026 online "reflects Qatar’s resilience," said DFI CEO Fatma Hassan Alremaihi
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Doha Film Institute The Doha Film Institute’s Qumra Arab film industry incubator — which has been scrapped as a physical event and moved online due to the ongoing U.S.-Israel-Iran war — has unveiled the 49 projects from 39 countries that will be on digital display from March 27-April 8.
Features set to be unveiled to industry and festival executives at Qumra that are in the picture-lock phase — and are therefore likely to soon surface on the festival circuit — comprise “Pipes” (pictured), a drama about a retired water authority worker under pressure to bring back water in his quiet village, directed by Brooklyn-based Lebanese photographer and director Karim Kassem (“Thiiird”); Chinese filmmaker and artist Qiu Jiongjiong’s “Fuxi: Joy in Four Chapters,” which weaves together four Sichuan tales spanning thousands of years, connected through the universal language of food and feasting; Chilean director Jairo Boisier Olave’s “Radiesthesia,” about a teenager named Judith who has a gift of finding water underground in a drought-ravaged town; and France-based Cameroonian filmmaker Bernard Auguste Kouemo Yanghu’s first feature “House of the Wind,” which is set in the capital of Cameroon where an elderly woman named Josette is struggling with loneliness as she oversees the construction of a house for one of her sons who is living abroad.
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