• The Orphanage

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  'The Orphanage' is set in Kabul in the late 1980s. 15-year-old Qodrat lives on the streets and…

  

  Shahrbanoo Sadat / Afghanistan, Denmark, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Our River...Our Sky

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production, Post-Production Stage

  Baghdad, 2006. All over the city, people of different religions are being forced out of their h…

  

  Maysoon Pachachi / United Kingdom, France, Germany, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Photographer

  Fall Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  Maher, a photographer for the Syrian regime, takes photos of deceased military personnel. The r…

  

  Anas Khalaf / Syria, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Plastic Flowers‏

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  A documentary about the experience of enforced disappearance in the prisons of ISIS told throug…

  

  Amer Mattar / Syria, Germany, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Plot 35

  Fall Grants 2016 -

  Plot 35 is a place that was never mentioned in my family; it is where my elder sister, who died…

  

  Eric Caravaca / France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Poster

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  A poster appears on the walls of the Palestinian village of Reith, accusing the local women of…

  

  Suha Arraf / Palestine, France, Germany, 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

• 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

• 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

• Rising up at Night

  Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  Kinshasa, the capital city of 17 million people, is plunged into darkness and insecurity as its…

  

  Nelson Makengo / Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Belgium, Germany, Burkina Faso, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Road to La Paz

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Thirty-five-year-old Sebastián’s greatest passions are his old Peugeot 505 and the prog-rock ba…

  

  Francisco Varone / Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Selma

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  After the accidental death of her taxi-driver husband, Selma decides to become master of her ow…

  

  Mohamed Ben Attia / Tunisia, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Settlement

  Spring Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

  In present-day Alexandria, a factory worker, Sayed el-Deeb, dies on the job. The only compensat…

  

  Mohamed Rashad / Egypt, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Shadow of a Man

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Ahmad, 26, is the best mechanic in the mountains of Lebanon. The only car he hasn’t had time an…

  

  Niam Itani / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Ship Of Fools

  Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  She didn’t even know they were bombs. When her father could no longer pretend they were falling…

  

  Alia Haju / Germany, Lebanon, Qatar / Short Documentary

• Sivas

  Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Set in a bleak Anatolian village, ‘Sivas’ tells the story of 11-year-old Aslan and Sivas, a wea…

  

  Kaan Müjdeci / Turkey, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Speak Image, Speak

  Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

  Palestinian history is largely ignored by the German public. After the attack by Palestinian as…

  

  Pary El-Qalqili / Germany, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• The Stranger

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production, Production, Production Stage

  After spending unfruitful years studying medicine in the former Soviet Union, Adnan decided to…

  

  Ameer Fakher Eldin / Syria, Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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