Majid Al-Remaihi

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Failaka, previously Ikaros, the ancient island off the coast of Kuwait, recalls an oracle decades after the Gulf War left it deserted. Nature guards the island's ruins, animals roam it awaiting to be found, holes reach to its belly—the island where the pedigrees of pasts and futures meet. The film follows Hassan, a native to Failaka, but who had lost memory of its existence until a few years ago, when it brought him back to it.

Majid Al-Remaihi

Majid Al-Remaihi is a filmmaker and artist from Doha, Qatar. Before enrolling at Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, he made the short film *And Then They Burn the Sea* in close collaboration with Cambodian director Rithy Panh. This premiered at Locarno in 2021. His filmmaking practice oscillates between documentary methods and reconstructions of the intangible. He explores the realm of the unnoticed and the invisible as points where history, power and social conditions condense. Since 2019, he has also been film programmer for the Doha Film Institute. More recently, he was assistant curator of the exhibition “Your Ghosts Are Mine: Expanded Cinema, Amplified Voices,” put on during the Venice Biennale in 2024.

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