Doha Film Institute Gets Behind Projects By Sofia Alaoui, Oday Rasheed, Youssef Chebbi & Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese In Fall 2024 Grants Round
deadline.comQatar‘s Doha Film Institute has revealed the 47 projects across all formats selected for its fall 2024 grants round. Palestinian director Razan Madhoon’s Gaza-set drama The Good Spirit; Moroccan-French filmmaker Sofia Alaoui’s thriller Tarfaya and The Joyful 1926 by Algerian team Damien Ounouri and Adila Bendimerad are among the feature projects to have made the cut.
Expanding on her short film of the same name, The Good Spirit revolves around a young woman in Gaza who takes in a wounded stray dog against the wishes of her family.
It will be the debut feature for Madhoon, who has lived in the UK since 2105. The project is in development. Alaoui’s second feature after her Sundance breakout Animalia, thriller Tarfaya is set in a remote coastal town in a near-future buffeted by extreme weather and a mysterious sleeping sickness.
The Joyful 1926 about a Muslim actress who defies societal norms to pursue her theatrical dreams against the backdrop of colonial Algeria is Ounouri and Bendimerad’s third collaboration after mermaid drama Kindil el Bahr and historical drama The Last Queen.
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