Abode of the Blessed
Majid Al-Remaihi
Residency - Film production
2024
Abode of the Blessed is a hybrid film that explores the complex layered history of Failaka. It divulges into the existing confrontations between the island's metaphors of the Gulf's past and the future.
Director of Photography: Arnaud Alberola
Assistant Camera: Yanis Cherif
Sound engineer: M'Hand Abdou Djezairi
Production manager: Elodie Wattiaux
Production: Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains (France) with the support of the Doha Film Institute (Qatar) and FIKAR (Kuwait)
Majid Al-Remaihi
Majid Al-Remaihi is an award-winning filmmaker and artist from Doha, Qatar. His short film “And Then They Burn the Sea” was Qatar’s first film at Locarno Film Festival (2021) and its first submission to the Oscars, and went on to win Best Short at Vienna Shorts; the Silver Tanit at Carthage Film Festival, and screened globally at more than thirty global festivals.
Al-Remaihi's work focuses on unraveling the complexity of historical narratives and their reconstructions in the Arabian Gulf. He is also a film programmer at the Doha Film Institute.
