• 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

• Ava

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  Ava’s first visit to the gynaecologist with her mother is a traumatic experience for the young…

  

  Sadaf Foroughi / Iran, Canada, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Batata

  Spring Grant 2015 -

  Shot over an unparalleled ten years, the latest film by Lebanese-Syrian director Noura Kevorkia…

  

  Noura Kevorkian / Lebanon, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Born in the Maelstrom

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Inspired by the novel ‘Naissance de Rebecca à l’ère des tourments’ by Québécoise author Marie-C…

  

  Meryam Joobeur / Tunisia, Canada, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Brotherhood

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  Malik, an eighteen-year-old with flaming red hair, returns to his small village in Tunisia afte…

  

  Meryam Joobeur / Canada, Tunisia, Qatar, Sweden / Short Narrative

• Cinema Palestine

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  This film will focus on the ‘fourth wave’ of Palestinian cinema, running from 1980 to the prese…

  

  Tim Schwab / Palestine, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Days of Tyranny

  Fall Grant 2011 -

  In a border town set in an unnamed Arab country ruled by a ruthless dictatorship, Hana, a mothe…

  

  Katia Jarjoura / Canada, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Days of Tyranny

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  In a border town set in an unnamed Arab country ruled by a ruthless dictatorship, Hana, a mothe…

  

  Katia Jarjoura / Lebanon, France, Canada, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Demons to Diamonds

  Fall Grants 2024 - Production Stage

  "In the towering labyrinth of steel and glass that is La Défense, the business district of Pari…

  

  Valentin Noujaïm / Lebanon, France, Switzerland, Canada, Italy, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Fire

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Surviving in Algeria is a constant challenge that leaves the nation’s population without hope.…

  

  Meriem Achour Bouakkaz / Algeria, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Freedom Fields

  Spring Grant 2012 -

  In post-revolution Libya, a group of women are brought together by one dream: to play football…

  

  Naziha Arebi / Libya, United Kingdom, United States of America, Netherlands, Canada, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Freedom Fields

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  Filmed over five years, 'Freedom Fields' follows three women and their football team in post-re…

  

  Naziha Arebi / Libya, United Kingdom, Netherlands, United States of America, Qatar, Lebanon, Canada / Feature Documentary

• The Greatest Wait

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  Zei loses her body in cyberspace and finds herself trapped in a city that bears an uncanny rese…

  

  Razan AlSalah / France, Canada, Palestine, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• I, Hummus

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  When I landed in Canada in 2006, I became recognized as a giant walking plate of hummus. Being…

  

  Rawane Nassif / Lebanon, Canada, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Midnight Traveler

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee wi…

  

  Hassan Fazili / Afghanistan, United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Midwives

  Fall Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

  Hla and Nyo Nyo live in a country torn by conflict. Hla is a Buddhist and the owner of a makesh…

  

  Hnin Ei Hlaing / Myanmar, Germany, Canada / Feature Documentary

• Opening Doors

  Fall Grant 2014 - Development Stage

  ‘Opening Doors’ tells the true story of Amna Mahmoud who, from her early childhood, dreamed of…

  

  Nora Al-Subai / Qatar, Canada / Short Narrative

• Rent-a-Mama

  Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

  Nuhad is a sixty-year-old Lebanese supermom who has a big fear of change. She never ventures ou…

  

  Dania Bdeir / Lebanon, Canada, Qatar / TV Series

• Salted Skins

  Spring Grants 2024 - Production Stage

  Nabil and Mikayel lived peacefully in their small house, protected from the threatening salt. E…

  

  Nicolas Fattouh / France, Canada, Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Standstill

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Arihote is a Kanienkehaka photographer whose life is at a standstill. When he witnesses the mur…

  

  Majdi El-Omari / Canada, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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