Supporter
BHD 5+ VAT
- Name in the film's on-screen supporters credits
- Digital poster
- Behind-the-scenes photo and video access
- Social media shout-out from the film
Today: Print pin
Choose Supporter
Film Pitch Expo 2026Buy the merch, fund the film. Presented with IndieSouq.
SFFB 2026 · Film Pitch ExpoNarrative Short
Overdrive
Directed by Qasim Sabba · Wahaj StudiosA year after the refusal to pit that got him and his country thrown out of the championship, an eighteen-year-old Bahraini karter is given one last race, and has to decide whether winning is still the point.
25-minute narrative short · Arabic, Bahraini dialect · Bahrain International CircuitBHD 5 raised of BHD 10,5001 backer · 0%
Every tier puts your name in the film's credits. Prices are before 10% VAT, added at checkout. Merch is collected at the IndieSouq desk or delivered.Back this film
Prices before 10% VAT, added at checkout
Fan
Most popularBHD 12+ VAT
- Name in the film's on-screen supporters credits
- Digital poster
- Behind-the-scenes photo and video access
- Social media shout-out from the film
Today: Print pin and mascot teePrefer the poster print to the tee? It is delivered after the expo.
Choose Fan
Backer
BHD 50+ VAT
- 'Special Thanks' in the film's on-screen credits
- Name in the film's on-screen supporters credits
- Digital poster
- Behind-the-scenes photo and video access
- Social media shout-out from the film
Today: Mascot tee, mug and print pinDelivered: Signed poster
Choose BackerExecutive Producer
Limited per filmBHD 500+ VAT
- 'Executive Producer' credit on the film, on-screen and on IMDb where applicable
- On-set visit during production
- Group photo with cast and crew
- Reserved seating at the premiere screening
- 'Special Thanks' in the film's on-screen credits
- Name in the film's on-screen supporters credits
- Digital poster
- Behind-the-scenes photo and video access
- Social media shout-out from the film
Today: Mascot tee, mug and print pinDelivered: Signed poster
Choose Executive ProducerCompare tiers
Each tier includes everything in the tiers below it| SupporterBHD 5.000Plus VAT | FanBHD 12.000Plus VATMost popular | BackerBHD 50.000Plus VAT | Executive ProducerBHD 500.000Plus VAT | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What arrives | ||||
| Print pin | ||||
| Mascot t-shirt or poster print | · | |||
| 11 oz festival mug | · | · | ||
| Signed poster | · | · | ||
| Credits and access | ||||
| Name in the film's supporters credits | ||||
| Digital poster and behind-the-scenes access | ||||
| Social media shout-out from the film | ||||
| 'Special Thanks' in the on-screen credits | · | · | ||
| 'Executive Producer' credit, on screen and on IMDb | · | · | · | |
| On-set visit during production | · | · | · | |
| Group photo with cast and crew | · | · | · | |
| Reserved seating at the premiere | · | · | · | |
The pitch
Synopsis
Khaled Al-Majeed is eighteen, number 28, and three warnings deep when the film opens. His coach writes one word on a board and runs it to the edge of the track: خفف. Ease off. Khaled drives past it faster. The black flag comes out and Bahrain is disqualified from the endurance championship. That is the first three minutes.
A year later the coach is under a car in a workshop, which is his job now. Khaled is dropping wheels off rims at a roadside tyre shop with black hands and a cut across one knuckle, sitting at the back of university lectures opening and closing his fist instead of listening. When an entry form finally turns up for one more season, Khaled talks his way back onto the team as second driver, and is told plainly that he will not be racing.
He races. He takes the qualifying round from fifteenth, eats a five-second penalty, and wins it on the last lap. Bahrain is through to the final: twelve consecutive hours on the actual Formula One track, a Le Mans-style start, thirty drivers. Khaled wears an old scratched helmet out of a duffle bag with a name and a number on the back that are not his.
Four hours in, the feeling goes out of his hands. He pits without being called, ices his forearms, and goes back out for the last hour anyway. He is leading with twenty minutes left when his fingers stop closing. The coach comes back with the same board and the same word. This time his father is standing beside him holding it.
Khaled lifts his foot. He takes the corner slow, ugly, wide, and in one line. He finishes second, because he eased off, which is the exact thing he refused to do a year ago. His father takes his hand in both of his and does not shake it, just holds it.
Directed byQasim Sabba
Produced byWahaj Studios
Runtime25 minutes
LanguageArabic (Bahraini dialect)
Shot atBahrain International Circuit, 9 of 12 shoot days
ScheduleShoot January 2027 · Delivery February 2027
PartnersBahrain International Circuit, Ministry of Youth Affairs, Wahaj Studios
Full budgetBHD 10,500
Characters
Khaled Al-Majeed
Eighteen, number 28. Fast enough to win and too proud to ease off, which is how he loses everything in the first three minutes.
The Coach
Mid-fifties, white beard. Spent the year since the disqualification under a car in a workshop. Has one season left to bring the team back.
Khaled's father
Thinks the whole thing is wasted time, and watches every lap of the final anyway. Ends the film holding his son's hand in both of his.
Ammar
The team's other driver, the one actually entered to race. Gives up the kart, takes it back when Khaled's hands go, and watches him walk past to the pit.
Nasser
Fifties. Turns up in the workshop doorway with a folded entry form and the offer of one more year.
Abdullah
Khaled's uncle, his father's brother, and a GT driver. Present only as a number 28 on a scratched helmet, a face in a framed photograph, and a crash on an old tape.
Why this film
320Shots listed
40+Crew members
80+Cast actors
2Institutional partners
A milestone production
The first narrative film to be shot at the Bahrain International Circuit.
Authentic representation
Built on our own identity: Bahraini dialect, local cast and local crew.
Global reach
Made in a format that travels on both the Gulf and the international festival circuits.
Overdrive is the first narrative film to shoot at the Bahrain International Circuit. Nine of its twelve shoot days are on the track itself.
The Bahrain International Circuit has secured the locations and the karts, and Wahaj Studios has secured the on-set crew. Every dinar raised here goes to the five production lines that are still open: equipment, cast and post, production design, insurance and safety, and operations.
Merchandise is produced by the Student Film Festival and the margin on every tier and every item goes to this film's budget.
Aiming for:VOX CinemasEPIXSaudi Film FestivalBahrain Film Festival
The team
Qasim SabbaWriter and Director
Mahmood AlsebeaDirector of Photography
Husam BalushiProducer
Ammar MashkoorExecutive Producer
Ali BuSalehAssistant Director
Layla Al KhayerProduction Designer
Where the money goes
Full budget BHD 10,500BHD 2,500Equipment · 24%
BHD 2,000Cast and post production · 19%
BHD 2,000Production design · 19%
BHD 1,500Insurance and safety · 14%
BHD 2,500Production and operations · 24%
Already covered:The locations · Bahrain International CircuitTrack and karts · Bahrain International CircuitOn-set crew · Wahaj Studios
Festival merch
Student Film Festival Bahrain 26 merchandise. Buy any of it here and the margin goes straight to Overdrive. Pick it up at the festival or have it shipped.
Prices are shown before VAT; 10% Bahrain VAT is added at checkout. Film posters are pre-orders and ship after the festival. Tees, hoodies, mugs and print pins are at the Film Pitch Expo desk while stock lasts.