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DFI's 2024 Fall Grants announcement includes projects by Youssef Chebbi, Sofia Alaoui, Mehdi Hmili and Anas Khalaf

E. Nina Rothe January 30, 2025

As well as a feature doc by Iraqi actress and filmmaker Zahraa Ghandour, a web series by Palestinian storyteller Amer Shomali, Damien Ounouri’s and Adila Bendimerad’s follow up to festival fave ‘The Last Queen’, and shorts by Qatari talents Mahdi Ali Ali and Majid Al-Remaihi.

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In Film, Features Tags Doha Film Institute, DFI, Grants Fall 2024, Youssef Chebbi, Sofia Alaoui, Mehdi Hmili, Anas Khalaf, Zahraa Ghandour, Amer Shomali, Damien Ounouri, Adila Bendimerad, Mahdi Ali Ali, Majid Al-Remaihi, Qumra, lgeria, Belgium, Denmark, Egypt, France, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Lesotho, Mexico, Morocco, Palestine, Spain, Tunisia, Fatma Hassan Alremaihi, Asmae El Moudir, The Mother of All Lies, Oscars, Bye Bye Tiberias, Lina Soualem, Amara, Michelle Keserwany, Camera Obscura, Viola Shafik, Rock Paper Sea, Randa Ali, The Good Spirit, Razan Madhoon, Gaza, In Memory of Times to Come, Larissa Sansour, Love-45, Minkaf, S.M. Al Thani, Plague, Selfless, Meriem Mesraoua, Tarfaya, The Joyful 1926, The Pearl, Noor Al-Nasr, Exile, Songs of Adam, Oday Rasheed, Spring Came On Laughing, Noha Adel, And Still I Rise, Djanis Bouzyani, Life After Siham, Namir Abdel, The Sixth Story, Ahmed Abd, Mother of Silence, My Armenian Phantoms, Tamara Stepanyan, Souraya Mon Amour, Nicolas Khoury, Souraya Baghdadi, Women of Sin, Noufissa Chara, Karima Nadir, Kir Mama, Kif Baba, B.A.H.R Alphabet, Sabine El Chamaa, A Lover’s Manifesto, Alfred Tarasi, Burden, Mohammed D. Fakhro, Amal Al Mutfah, Mohamed Megdoul, Valentin Noujaim, Youssef Michraf, Anissa Daoud, Maryam Al-Mohammed, Ethel Elmalik, Yassine Wahrani, Fahd Al-Nahdi, Obada Jarbi, Natural State, Men Home La Hon, Marie-Louise Elia, Julien Kobersy, Jean-Claude Boulos, Nadine, Christophe Saber, Druze, Visions of the After: Dark Cedar, Ali Hamouch, The Walled Off Hotel, Sleepless City, Guillermo Garcia Lopez, The Reserve, Pablo Pérez Lombardini, Fatna a Woman Named Rachid, Hélène Harder, Once Upon a Time in Shiraz, Hamed Zolfaghari, The Last Shore, Jean-François Ravagnan, Ancestral Visions of the Future, Lemohang Jeremiah Moses
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Olmo Schnabel talks directing 'Pet Shop Days', dual identities & laws of attraction

E. Nina Rothe September 5, 2023

Olmo Schnabel’s directorial debut is everything you could wish for in a film, from a man with such an impressive background — artist and filmmaker Julian is his dad and mom is Spanish actress Olatz López Garmendia — but also someone who is perfectly at ease with both his American and Spanish sides. And refreshingly believes life is best when lived outside the boxes of convention.

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In Film, Interviews, Film Festivals Tags Olmo Schnabel, Pet Shop Days, Pet Shop Boys, New York stories, Venice International Film Festival, Orizzonti Extra, Jack Irv, Jack Irving, Dario Yazbek Bernal, Galen Core, New York story, Mexico, Olatz López Garmendia, Maribel Verdú, Jordi Mollá, Louis Cancelmi, Willem Dafoe, Emmanuelle Seigner, Peter Sarsgaard, La Biennale di Venezia, Martin Scorsese, Francesco Melzi d'Eril, Michel Franco
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