• Railway Men

  Spring Grant 2013 -

  Conducting the trains of Line #1, the country’s deadliest, five employees struggle with the dar…

  

  Erige Sehiri / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Red Path

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Two young shepherds, Nizar (16), and his cousin Achraf (14) are grazing their goats on a…

  

  Lotfi Achour / Tunisia, France, Belgium, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Republic of Silence

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  They grew up in the lands of dictators and surveillance, where images are censored, photos are…

  

  Diana El Jeiroudi / Syria, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Rest In Piece

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Amidst a cacophony of shelling, Midyan is forced to flee his war-torn home. Packing only a suit…

  

  Antoine Antabi / Germany, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Return

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Taysir, a historian in his fifties, has settled in the French city of Marseille with his wife M…

  

  Meyar Al-Roumi / France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Return Of The Prodigal Son

  Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  Cairo 2009. Back from the army, Salem, 25, joins his family in Cairo’s rag-picking district, ho…

  

  Rani Massalha / Egypt, Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Return to Seoul

  Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  On an impulse to reconnect with her origins, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first…

  

  Davy Chou / France, Germany, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Reverence for Spiders

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  New York-based imam Omar Metwally develops an unlikely friendship with the homeless teenager wh…

  

  Faiza Ambah / Saudi Arabia, United States of America, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Rey

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  In 1860, a 35-year-old Frenchman explores Araucania, an autonomous region of southern Chile. Th…

  

  Niles Atallah / Chile, France, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Rise of the Gulf / Beyond Black Gold

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Two films to tell the incredible tale of the metamorphosis of the Gulf’s emirates over the cour…

  

  Frédéric Compain / France, Qatar, Kuwait / Feature Documentary

• Road Trip

  Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

  Khammar, a 72-year-old garage owner in Vaulx-en-Velin, a suburb of Lyon, considers his garage h…

  

  LINDA QIBAA / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• A Road to Damascus

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Based on Meedo’s novel of the same title. A bus carrying immigrant farmers is gunned down just…

  

  Meedo Taha / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Rooftops

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Algiers. An overcrowded city with endless traffic jams, chaotic crowds, rundown buildings, old…

  

  Merzak Allouache / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Roqia

  Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  In 1993, after a car crash leaves Ahmed with amnesia, he returns to his village, where not…

  

  Yanis Koussim / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Roundabout in My Head

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  While it may seem strange to think of an abattoir as a place of peace and beauty, ‘Roundabout…

  

  Hassen Ferhani / Algeria, France, Lebanon, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• 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

• Samir in the Dust

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  I always liked smugglers because they are playing with borders. But, I soon realized that the o…

  

  Mohamed Ouzine / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Scenes from a Revolt Sustained

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Examining the culture and history of Tunisia and how it has been mediated or ignored by the Wes…

  

  Kays Mejri, Matt Peterson / France, Tunisia, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• School of Hope

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  In the vast expanse of desert, East of Atlas Mountains in Morocco, seasonal rain and snow once…

  

  Mohamed El Aboudi / Finland, France, Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Sea Ahead

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  A young woman walks out of the Beirut airport alone and makes her way back home to her parents’…

  

  Ely Dagher / Lebanon, France, Belgium, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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