• '81

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  When tasked by officials to pursue entry into the 1981 FIFA Youth World Championships in Austra…

  

  Dawood Al-Anwari, Ali Al Anssari / Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 143 Sahara Street

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Malika lives alone in the middle of the desert. There she runs a small restaurant serving two d…

  

  Hassen Ferhani / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 143 Sahara Street

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  In her little restaurant in the middle of the Algerian desert, a woman writes her history. Ther…

  

  Hassen Ferhani / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 1976

  Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house to supervise its renovation. Her husband, chil…

  

  Manuela Martelli / Chile, Argentina, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 1982

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  A DFI Inclusive Screening Working in partnership with the Translation and Interpre…

  

  Oualid Mouaness / Lebanon, United States of America, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 19B

  Fall Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  An abandoned villa, deserted by its owners since the 60s, is only inhabited by its guard, who r…

  

  Ahmad Abdalla / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 2 Rooms and a Parlor

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Khalil Suleiman has always preferred to stay away from other people, but after his wife’s death…

  

  Sherif El Bendary / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 200 Meters

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Mustafa and his wife Salwa come from two Palestinian villages that are only 200 meters apart, b…

  

  Ameen Nayfeh / Palestine, Jordan, France, Germany, Italy, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 2G

  Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  Agadez, 2021. Following the ban on unlawful migrant transportation by the Niger government, fou…

  

  Karim Sayad / Algeria, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 3000 Nights

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Falsely accused of being involved in terrorist activity, Layal is arrested, interrogated, and i…

  

  Mai Masri / Palestine, France, Jordan, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 5 Seasons of Revolution

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  An aspiring video journalist in her 20s finds herself already facing self-reckoning. Born in Da…

  

  Lina / Syria, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The 67th Summer

  Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  In 1967 Ali Ragheb, a young man from Cairo, receives a letter from an Austrian girl named Liz—a…

  

  Abu Bakr Shawky / France, Egypt, Austria, Germany / Feature Narrative

• 7 KM - Seven Kilometers

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  1992, somewhere in Algeria. Omar and Othman, two boys from the same poor village, walk the seve…

  

  Oussama Benhassine / Algeria, Qatar / Short Narrative

• 7 Waves

  Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  A magical realist tale inspired by local Arabian Gulf mythology and set in Khaleeji modernism.…

  

  Hamida Issa / Qatar, Saudi Arabia / Feature Narrative

• Abandon

  Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  A VR 360° short that tells the story of Khalil and Zalfa, a middle-aged couple, and how they sp…

  

  Farah Shaer / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• Abo Zaabal 1989

  Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  In 1989, Mahmoud Mortada, Bassams father, was arrested, imprisoned and tortured at the infamous…

  

  Bassam Mortada / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Abou Leila

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  Algeria, 1994. Terrorist attacks have ravaged the north of the country for the past two years.…

  

  Amin Sidi-Boumédiène / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Abu Fanoos

  Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  Nineteen-year-old Khaled drives up to a small, isolated farm in 1980s Qatar where his reclusive…

  

  Horia El Hadad, Amira Abujbara / Qatar, Morocco / Short Narrative

• Across the Sea

  Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  Nour, 27, has immigrated illegally to Marseille. With his friends, he lives a marginal and fest…

  

  Saïd Hamich Benlarbi / Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Adam

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-ye…

  

  Maryam Touzani / Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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