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Young jurors aged 8 to 25 form three age-based groups—Mohaq, Hilal and Bader—and choose awards for feature-length and short films, with funding supporting the winning directors’ next projects. Ajyal’s festival history includes editions from 2013 to 2024. Its youth-jury tradition now continues within Doha Film Festival through a film competition judged by young people and separate film-club experiences for younger audiences. Its emphasis remains on discussion, film appreciation and participation across generations.",[21,24],{"year":22,"hasAwards":16,"hasSelection":23},"2019",true,{"year":25,"hasAwards":16,"hasSelection":23},"2018",[],{"aboutHtml":28,"countries":29,"focus":31,"categories":32,"nextDates":15,"awardsPrizes":37,"rules":38,"website":39,"contacts":40,"editDate":67},"\u003Cp>Ajyal Film Festival is Doha Film Institute’s youth-focused festival identity in Doha, Qatar. Its standalone festival programme brings international features and shorts together with Made in Qatar, family screenings, filmmaker conversations and workshops. Young jurors aged 8 to 25 form three age-based groups—Mohaq, Hilal and Bader—and choose awards for feature-length and short films, with funding supporting the winning directors’ next projects.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Ajyal’s festival history includes editions from 2013 to 2024. Its youth-jury tradition now continues within Doha Film Festival through a film competition judged by young people and separate film-club experiences for younger audiences. Its emphasis remains on discussion, film appreciation and participation across generations.\u003C\u002Fp>",[30],"Qatar",[],[33,34,35,36],"Animation","Documentary","Feature","Short","In the standalone Ajyal festival format, each of the Mohaq, Hilal and Bader youth juries selects a best feature and a best short, with funding for the winning directors’ next projects. The programme also includes a Bariq audience vote, a Made in Qatar award selected by industry professionals and the Ajyal Audience Award.\n\nAjyal now continues as a competition within Doha Film Festival. The published 2026 regulations specify a Best Feature Film award of US$35,000 and a Best Short Film award of US$12,000, each with a trophy. These current prizes belong to the Ajyal competition at Doha Film Festival.","Ajyal’s current film competition operates within Doha Film Festival. Under the published 2026 regulations, short films may be submitted; features are selected by invitation. All genres are eligible, and films must hold Middle Eastern premiere status, excluding North Africa. Shorts have a maximum runtime of 20 minutes, subject to programming exceptions; features have a minimum runtime of 60 minutes. Selections address themes relevant to the Ajyal Jury, aged 16 to 25.\n\nNo entry fee is required. Submissions include a private viewing link, and non-English films require English subtitles. 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