A debut festival crowns 'Sleepless City'

A debut festival crowns 'Sleepless City'

The inaugural Doha Film Festival closed with a clear sense of purpose as Guillermo Galoe's 'Sleepless City' claimed Best Film, capping a week that festival director Fatma Hassan Alremaihi framed as a push to champion daring cinematic voices. Galoe's film, a hybrid drama rooted in Europe's largest informal settlement, quickly became the symbol of an edition leaning unmistakably toward politically engaged storytelling. The narrative prize jury, le…