Date: Friday, May 17, 2024
Time: 3 pm – 7 pm
Location: Auditorium – Museum of Islamic Art

Film Screening – Ode to Our Land

Join us for an immersive film experience as Ajyal Film Club presents the screening of Ode to Our Land by Rawda Al-Thani and Amal Al-Muftah.

Year: 2023
Runtime: 83 minutes
Director: Rawda Al-Thani and Amal Al-Muftah
Type: Documentary
Language: Arabic with English and Arabic subtitles

Synopsis:

His Highness the Father Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani was once a young man who lived in a city that would one day become a great metropolis and global centre. On the path to becoming a leader, his vision was formed by many things—memory, dreams and aspirations—all coalescing to make the backbone of a lucid and intelligent development of a nation. Charting the path from childhood to the ascension to power and through interviews, recollections and the filmmakers’ poetic and subjective explorations, ‘Ode to Our Land’ is a journey into courage, persistence and radical foresight.

The film screening will be followed by a Q&A session with Dr Sazgar Hamad, the current clinical lead for women’s mental health services at Hamad Medical Corporation. Hilal member Fatima Zulfiqar will moderate this session.

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