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Qatari student filmmaker Mohammed Al Ibrahim’s big break in forthcoming Hollywood movie Black Gold involved pigeons. ‘I had a small role in the film. Myself and another Qatari, we were pigeon guards. Basically for homing pigeons. I had to say, “The pigeons are dead or flew away.”’

Al Ibrahim laughs when he recalls the experience, and looks forward to seeing himself on the big screen when Black Gold is released towards the end of the year. He’s come a long way since shooting his first one-minute movie as part of an educational programme put on by what would eventually become the Doha Film Institute (DFI). Now he’s involved in Black Gold, the first big-budget production to be shot partially in Qatar, involving hundreds of extras, crew members, and creepy dead rubber camels. The film stars Antonio Banderas (left) and Freida Pinto, and tells the story of two Arab princes during the era when oil was first being discovered in the region.

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