3rd Qumra Commences in Doha with Celebration of Modern Masters and New Voices in Cinema

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3rd Qumra Commences in Doha with Celebration of Modern Masters and New Voices in Cinema

The third edition of Qumra, the industry effort by the Doha Film Institute, started with a celebration of Modern Masters and new Voices in cinema, with accomplished filmmakers and industry professionals in addition to arising talents converging in Doha for a six-day event that intends to nurture the new generation of filmmakers.

Fatma Al Remaihi, Ceo of the Doha Film Institute, invited the international celebration, and highlighted the duty of Qumra as "a modern project incubator, and a specially curated industry intermediator occasion that brings together global film experts for finding out and for sharing experiences."

She said: "We established Qumra as a campaign that represents the conclusion of our diverse financing, training and development programmes. Our emphasis remains to grow the exchange of knowledge, concepts, imagination and ideas, and produce a helpful and productive space for tasks by emerging filmmakers to gain from interactions with some of one of the most skilled industry professionals."

The opening day was noted by the testing of the very first Modern Masters screening of Lisbon Tale (Germany, Portugal/1994), produced by Qumra Master, the globally well-known producer Paulo Branco. Directed by Wim Wenders, the remarkably crafted film is considered a powerful paean to filmmaking. The screening was complied with by a Q&A session with Branco.

The 2017 Qumra Masters include contemporary Iranian master Asghar Farhadi; French auteur Bruno Dumont; Cambodian creative documentarian Rithy Panh, Argentina's eminent filmmaker Lucrecia Martel

" The Masters program goes to the heart of Qumra, and presents a unique possibility for emerging talents to get in touch with stars of modern cinema and discover inspiration in their works and experience," said Fatma Al Remaihi. "By sharing their individual perspectives on filmmaking, the Qumra Masters give long-term advantage to our arising filmmakers and make a significant influence on their careers.

An additional emphasize of the opening day was the New Voices Shorts Programme screening - featuring five brief films by emerging regional skills consisting of Qatari filmmakers. The films screened were: Kashta (2016) by A.J. Al Thani; I Have Been Enjoying You All Along (2017) by Rawda Al-Thani; Turtles Are Always Residence (2016) by Rawane Nassif; RED (2017) by Kholood Mohammed Al-Ali; and Our Time Is Going out (2017) by Meriem Mesraoua.

"In lots of ways, these testings exhibit the Doha Movie institute's work year-round in supporting emerging abilities from Qatar and the wider region. They show the enthusiasm and creativity of our filmmakers, and the support group that are in place and in action, to additionally boost the regional movie landscape," added Fatma Al Remaihi.

On Saturday (March 4, 2017), Qumra will host the Modern Master testing of L'il Quinquin (France, 2014) routed by Qumra Master Bruno Dumont, at 7 PM, and the New Voices in Cinema screening of Holy Cow (Azerbaijan, Germany, Romania, Qatar/2015) by Imamaddin Hasanov at 4 PM. Both testings are at the Museum of Islamic Arts Amphitheater. On Saturday, Paulo Branco will certainly also conduct his Master course for the Qumra delegates. See www.dohafilminstitute.com for online and personally ticketing details for the screenings.

Qumra hosts prominent worldwide filmmakers, manufacturers, industry experts and professionals, for intense thinking, knowledge-sharing and caring sessions with abilities associated with 34 films from 25 countries. Supervisors and producers connected to 18 narrative feature movies, 7 function documentaries and 9 brief movies are taking part in the event being held up until March 8 at Souq Al Waqif and the Museum of Islamic Arts.

New to Qumra this year are the Accredited Delegates Program, developed for professionals from diverse histories which will allow 100 local and regional delegates to access extra opportunities and be a part of the platform for discovery, and 'Qumra Talks', a collection of three specially curated discussions that collects leaders from the innovation, movie, TV and online worlds to share their understandings on trending topics influencing the international movie industry.