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Film Screening: The Dam

Past Event

Qatar Preparatory School

7 February 2026

Doors open at 6.45pm
Film screening: 7– 8.30pm
Screening will take place at the Courtyard of the Qatar Preparatory School (QPS).

Free to attend, registration required
Food and drinks: Earth food truck serving coffee and snacks

A screening of The Dam (2022), a feature film about labour, resistance and transformation in Sudan.

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The Dam (2022), directed by Ali Cherri is a feature film set in Sudan near the massive hydroelectric Merowe Dam. Maher, a seasonal worker from Darfur, works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nile. Every evening, he secretly wanders off into the desert to build a mysterious monument made of mud. As he constructs his mud tower, a revolution unfolds around him. Broadcasts and reports of protests against Omar Al-Bashir's dictatorship fill the air. As the Sudanese people rise up for their freedom, his creation gradually seems to come alive.