• AND STILL I RISE

  Fall Grants 2024 - Development Stage

  Aravane Rézaï grew up in a world where everything was a battle, both on and off the court. As t…

  

  Djanis Moustapha Bouzyani / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• After Tahar

  Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  A patriarch, Tahar: Indochina war, psychiatric hospitals. A grandmother, Taklit: marriage, exil…

  

  Soufiane Adel / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary or Essay

• After a Revolution

  Spring Grants 2019 -

  Filmed over six years, ‘After A Revolution’ is the challenging story of a brother and sister st…

  

  Giovanni Buccomino / Italy, United Kingdom, Libya, United States of America, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• After the Bridge

  Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  Valeria Collina, an Italian woman who converted to Islam, returned to live in Italy in the summ…

  

  Davide Rizzo, Marzia Toscano / Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Agora

  Spring Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

  ‘Agora’ is the story of the return of three people who disappeared under unexplained circumstan…

  

  Ala Eddine Slim / Tunisia, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Aisha Can’t Fly Away

  Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  Aisha, a 26-year-old Somali woman, works as a caregiver for elderly patients. She lives in a ne…

  

  Morad Mostafa / Egypt, France, Germany, Tunisia, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Al Baseer - The Blind Ferryman

  Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  The blind ferryman Ayoub lives with his mother and religious brother in the Iraqi marshes. He a…

  

  Ali Al-Fatlawi / Iraq, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Al Zubara

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Taking place in Qatar 150 years into the future, Jassim Mohammed, driven by revenge since the a…

  

  Hamad Al Mansouri / Qatar / TV Series

• Al-Dana

  Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

  1752, Al-Dana is a woman in a man’s world where Pearl Diving is the only way of life. Her grand…

  

  Nora Al-Subai / Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Al-Sit

  Fall Grants 2018 -

  In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, 15-year-old Nafisa has a crush on Babiker, but her parent…

  

  Suzannah Mirghani / Sudan, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Alam

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Palestinian student Tamer doesn’t meddle in politics; at the same time, the memory of his uncle…

  

  Firas Khoury / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Algiers by Night

  Spring Grant 2012 -

  The sun sets over the Bay of Algiers. The city walls start to lose their shiny white, making ro…

  

  Yanis Koussim / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim

  Fall Grant 2012 -

  Ali loves a goat called Nada. Ibrahim, a depressed sound engineer who hears voices he cannot de…

  

  Sherif El Bendary / Egypt, United Arab Emirates, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• All That Passes By Through A Window That Doesn't Open

  Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Amid the attempt to revive a ‘new Silk Road’ between Europe and Asia, Azerbaijani men labour to…

  

  Martin DiCicco / United States of America, Georgia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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