Doha film institute CEO Fatma al Remahi In November 2025, plans for a new film festival in Katri Rajdhani have confirmed the details of which will be unveiled in the ear.
The news is that DFI was planning a new film event last November during its AJYAL Youth Festival. Al Rimaihi mentioned it during the inauguration ceremony of Ajal but never spoke about it since then.
The new DFI event will take place during the customer November slot of Ajyal, which is a busy time in the Arab Film Festival circuit between El Gauna of Egypt in October, Markech in late November and the Red Sea Film Festival of Saudi Arabia in December.
“We are very excited about the upcoming version,” Al Remahi said DiversityHe said, “We will have new programming elements in the festival, for industry and filmmakers, and also for the wider audience,” he said that before outlining further details.
AJYAL, which has become a one -year round program, will be partially included in the new program.
As for the move, Al Raymahi said that DFI is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year and the new film festival is an organic part of the organization’s development that runs an important film grant and workshop program that regularly sponsors the films selected by the major festivals and a top Mena field has become the industry driver.
Al Remahi talked Diversity During the ongoing Qumra event of DFI, an incubator and co-production market that helps promote first and second work, mostly by Arab directors, now in its 11th edition, where this year’s masters include Johnny to, Walter Sols and Daryas Khondji.
Cumra was conceived by DFI after the failure of the Tribeca Doha Film Festival which ran from 2009 to 2012.
In the new festival, DFI “develops into something that is more necessary for the industry, especially in Doha, but also for the broader industry in the Mena region. So we are really excited about it,” she said. “We are really happy to unveil it because I know a lot of people are asking questions.”
Two questions about the upcoming new DFI festival that are roaming among the attendees during Cumra, will it have an industry constituent and whether Cumra will be included in the new festival.
“We have no plans to change anything in Cumra,” he said. “We think it is important that the way it is, he is,” he said, “Whatever we do,” whatever we do is part of an eco-system and is associated with DFI, “said Al Remihi. At the same time, it seems clear that the new DFI incident will actually be indeed unspecified industry aspect.
