• Ladder to Damascus

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Ghalia moves to Damascus to study acting and rents a room in a traditional courtyard house, whe…

  

  Mohamad Malas / Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Land Was Well Past its Zenith

  Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  The film is a short experimental essay that wanders the streets of Beirut in 2024, five years a…

  

  Rita Mahfouz / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• Last Words

  Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

  After losing her young brother in a chemical factory blast, 18-year-old Nour develops strange p…

  

  Antoine Waked / Lebanon, Canada, Qatar / TV Series

• The Last of Us

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  N crosses the desert to North Africa, intending to obtain illegal passage to Europe. After he i…

  

  Ala Eddine Slim / Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Lebanese Rocket Society

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  When filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige inadvertently discovered that their native…

  

  Khalil Joreige, Joana Hadjithomas / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege

  Spring Grants 2019 -

  The district of Yarmouk in Damascus, Syria, sheltered the largest Palestinian refugee camp in t…

  

  Abdallah Al-Khatib / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Lot's Wife

  Fall Grant 2011 -

  Was it disobedience, the love of her home, or curiosity that made Lot’s wife—the woman with no…

  

  Sabine El Chamaa / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• Machtat

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Fatma and her two daughters Najeh and Waffeh, live in the neighbourhood of Bir Beranek in Mahdi…

  

  Sonia Ben Slama / Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Machtat

  Fall Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  In the small town of Mahdia, Tunisia, live Fatma and her two daughters, Najeh and Waffeh. They…

  

  Sonia Ben Slama / Tunisia, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• A Man of Honor

  Fall Grant 2010 - Post-Production Stage

  Set in Lebanon and Jordan, ‘A Man of Honor’ is a story of passion, betrayal and the many facets…

  

  Jean-Claude Codsi / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Man on Fire

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  The story of a man who was born and raised in a modest environment and aspired to be a superher…

  

  Ibrahim Harb / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Manity

  Spring Grants 2021 - Production Stage

  On a calm sunny day, Firas, an 11-year-old boy, accompanies his father Tayseer and his father’s…

  

  Hussen Ibraheem / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf

  Fall Grant 2012 -

  Marjoun is 17 years old and an outsider in her home of Little Rock, Arkansas. While her father…

  

  Susan Youssef / Lebanon, Netherlands, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Meskoun

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  While attempting to enter Europe, Lotfi Meskini drowns with seven other unfortunate illegal imm…

  

  Hicham Lasri / Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt, Qatar / TV Series

• Moondove

  Spring Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

  The harvest is in, but the abnormal drought is causing water issues in the village. A play is h…

  

  Karim Kassem / Lebanon, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Mother Valley

  Spring Grants 2020 - Development Stage

  Northern Lebanon, summer of 1958—in a small village in the ancient Christian Qadisha Valley, ma…

  

  Carlos Chahine / France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Mountain

  Fall Grant 2010 - Post-Production Stage

  A work of shadowy implosion, the stark and largely silent narrative of Lebanese director Ghassa…

  

  Ghassan Salhab / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• My Friend Gadhgadhi

  Fall Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  A few days after the assassination of left-wing Tunisian militant Chokri Belaïd in early 2013,…

  

  Rafik Omrani / Tunisia, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• My Uncle the "Terrorist"

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  When I was a child, there was a portrait of a man in our house. I never knew who he was; nobody…

  

  Elias Moubarak / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Myth of Mahmoud (Working Title)

  Spring Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

  In this reflexive and creative documentary, Mayar, 23, picks up the camera to capture the intri…

  

  Mayar Hamdan, Shaima Tamimi / Palestine, Lebanon, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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