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Doha Film Institute announces Asghar Farhadi, Bruno Dumont and Rithy Panh as first Masters for Qumra 2017

Dubai, UAE; December 10, 2016: Contemporary Iranian master Asghar Farhadi; French auteur Bruno Dumont; and Cambodian documentarian Rithy Panh are confirmed as the first Masters of Qumra 2017, the Doha Movie Institute's industry occasion dedicated to the development of arising skill with a concentrate on first- and second-time filmmakers.

An initiative that provides mentorship, nurturing, and hands-on growth for filmmakers from Qatar and worldwide, the third version of Qumra will be held from March 3-8, 2017, in Doha.

Fatma Al Remaihi, Chief Executive Officer of Doha Film Institute, said: "We are deeply honoured to welcome 3 dreamers of contemporary world cinema - Asghar Farhadi, Bruno Dumont and Rithy Panh - that bring their diverse methods to filmmaking to Qumra 2017. A dense industry event that is set on supporting the skills of arising filmmakers, Qumra will certainly acquire significant insight from these 3 globally acclaimed writer-directors. We are excited at the possibility of welcoming these Masters and anticipate engaging communications amongst them and the getting involved filmmakers."

Artistic Advisor to Doha Movie Institute, Elia Suleiman included: "The 3rd version of Qumra insists on remaining faithful to its essence and perfect; to being exact, regular and honest. Bruno Dumont, Asghar Farhadi, and Rithy Panh are 3 musicians that will significantly improve this concept and philosophy. These 3 filmmaker poets will provide their work and expand on their diverse methods of seeing: Farhadi's hyper-real aesthetic analysis of social settings; Dumont's masterful and painterly motion picture tableaux; and Panh's tender, individual explorations of past ruthlessness. Qumra assures to linger as an area of surprise and a place of exploration, thereby preserving its identity as the concealed side of the creative process."

Qumra is designed to supply innovative and professional support to supervisors and manufacturers connected to as several as 25 features and 10 shorts in development or post-production. These consist of a variety of emerging filmmakers from Qatar, along with regional and worldwide recipients of funding from the Institute's Grants Programme.
MASTER ACCOUNTS:

Qumra Master Asghar Farhadi

Asghar Farhadi made his initial short film at age 13 in a youth cinema club. In 2002, he wrote and guided his initial feature film , Dancing in the Dust (Raghss Dar Ghobar) (2003), which won awards for Ideal Actor at the 25th Moscow International Movie Festival and the Russian Society of Movie critics' Finest Movie award, as well as won Ideal Movie script and Best Director rewards at the 48th Asian Pacific film Festival.

A year later, Farhadi made Beautiful City (Shahre Ziba) (2004), a social style which was a rarity at the time. Adhering to Fireworks Wednesday (Chahar Shanbe Souri) (2006), he made About Elly (Darbareye Elly) (2009), which had simultaneous opening night at the Berlin International Film Festival and the Fajr Movie Festival. It took place to win the Silver Bear for Ideal Director in Berlin and the Crystal Simorgh for Ideal Guiding in Fajr.

Farhadi's following movie, A Separation (Jodaeiye Nader Az Simin) (2011) took the Golden Bear for Best Film, and 2 Silver Bears for its entertainers when it was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival. It went on to win greater than 70 honors, among them the Csar for Ideal Foreign Film and both the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

In the same year, he was called among Time publication's 100 most prominent people in the world, and began work on the screenplay for The Past, (2013), which won the Best Starlet Award at the Festival de Cannes and was nominated for Golden Globe and Csar Honors.

The second of Farhadi's movies to be created by Alexandre Mallet-Guy for Memento Films Production, The Salesperson (2016) was chosen for the Official Competition of the Festival de Cannes.

Qumra Master Bruno Dumont

Hovering on the border in between reasonable dramatization and the progressive, the movies of Bruno Dumont have actually specified a new narrative expression in world cinema. Recognized for creating total books that create the basis of his movies, Dumont is deeply influenced by the arts that are mirrored in the visual richness of his movie theater. Deeply affected by Greek and German ideology, his films are festival favourites.

Born in 1958 in France, Dumont taught philosophy before his launching in cinema, when he wrote and routed The Life of Jesus (La Vie de Jsus) in 1997. The film won the FIPRESCI Reward at the Chicago International Film Festival, a Camra d'Or Special Reference at the Festival de Cannes and was called Ideal New International Attribute at the Edinburgh International Movie Festival, to name a few honours.

His second film, Humanit (1999) won the Grand Prix for both Best Actor (Emmanuel Schott) and Best Actress(Sverine Caneele) at the Festival de Cannes, while Flanders (2006) secured the Grand Prize of the Jury at Cannes. Along with several shorts, Dumont has routed nine feature films, the most recent being Slack Bay (Ma Loute) (2016), starring Juliette Binoche. He served as the President of the Camra d'Or court at the Festival de Cannes in 2008.

Qumra Master Rithy Panh

Rithy Panh is a Cambodian-French filmmaker, author and producer. Bornin Cambodia, he examined filmmaking at the Institut des Hautes tudes Cinematographiques (IDHEC) in France. His job as a filmmaker focuses primarily on the contemporary fallout resulting from the genocide dedicated by the Khmer Rouge program in his homeland. Rooted in his first-hand experience of living in a remote labour camp, where he experienced unimaginable hardships and suffered permanent losses, Panh's jobs have an uncommon and striking authority.

He has guided countless globally acclaimed films, including The Rice People, which was picked for the Authorities Competitors of the Festival de Cannes in 1994; The Land of Roaming Souls (2000), which won numerous awards, consisting of the Robert and Frances Flaherty Award at the Yamagata International Documentary Festival; the prominent S21: The Khmer Rouge Fatality Maker, (2004), which took many honors around the world, amongst them the Albert Londres Award; Paper Could not Cover Embers (2007), The Sea Wall (2008) and Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell (2012).

In 2013, Panh guided The Missing out on Photo, which was chosen for the Academy Award for Finest Foreign Language Film and won the Grand Prix in the Un Specific Regard area at the Festival de Cannes. His latest directorial effort, Exile, again takes into consideration the serious criminal activities and abuse of the Khmer Rouge regime. It won large vital and public acclaim at Cannes in 2016.

Panh is devoted to helping restore the Cambodian film industry. In 2006, with fellow Cambodian movie director Ieu Pannakar, he opened the Bophana Audiovisual Resources Centre in Phnom Penh to collect audiovisual testaments of the Cambodian people and make this heritage easily accessible to all. He is additionally a major founder of the Cambodian Film Commission, an industry development organisation that includes the CFC Movie Laboratory, a specialist movie training program for Cambodians.

Previous Qumra Masters:
Previous Qumra Masters include Mexican star, producer and director Gael Garca Bernal (Amores Perros; No; Deficit); Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once in Anatolia; Wintertime Sleep - Palme d'Or champion at the Festival de Cannes in 2014); Japanese director Naomi Kawase (The Mourning Forest- victor of the Cannes Grand Prix in 2007); Romanian director Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days - 2007 Palme d'Or winner; Beyond the Hills); acclaimed Denmark-based documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Murder - chosen for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2013; The Appearance of Silence - chosen for the exact same award in 2015); fabulous US indie manufacturer James Schamus (co-writer and producer - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; producer - Eternal Sunlight of the Spotless Mind; Lost in Translation); Mauritanian filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako (Timbuktu - chosen for the Academy Award for Ideal International Language Film in 2015); Russian master Aleksandr Sokurov (Russian Ark, Francofonia); and Bosnian director Danis Tanovi (An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker; Tigers; No Guy's Land - winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2001).

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