• 7 Waves

  Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  A magical realist tale inspired by local Arabian Gulf mythology and set in Khaleeji modernism.…

  

  Hamida Issa / Qatar, Saudi Arabia / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Asphalt

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  'Asphalt' delves into the lives of two truck drivers on the road, crossing borders, towns and c…

  

  Ali Hammoud / Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Aïcha

  Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  Twenty-eight-year-old Aya is an ordinary young woman. She lives in Tozeur, a city in southern T…

  

  Mehdi M. Barsaoui / Tunisia, France, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Bab El Sahra

  Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  In the desert town of Bab El Sahra in North Africa, Gendarmerie Commander Hamid El Saber faces…

  

  Salem Brahimi / Algeria, France, Saudi Arabia, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Diaries from Lebanon

  Spring Grants 2021 - Production Stage

  In 2018, Joumana, a fiery feminist writer, poet and activist runs for election defying a politi…

  

  Myriam El Hajj / Lebanon, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Dog's Children

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  In Jeddah during the economically transformative year of 1973, a rabid neighbourhood dog cataly…

  

  Layan Abdul Shakoor / Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Habibi and I in Eden

  Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  On a foggy dark night where Sara’s family believes she is at her friend’s baby reception, and w…

  

  Sara Mesfer / Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Hamlet From the Slums

  Fall Grants 2021 - Production Stage

  Ahmed, an 18-year-old from a slum in Cairo, buries his father—the king of horse-driven carriage…

  

  Ahmed Fawzi Saleh / Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Harka

  Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  Tunisia, North Africa. Ali, a young man in his twenties, makes a precarious living selling cont…

  

  Lotfy Nathan / France, Tunisia, Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, United States of America, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• In This Darkness I See You

  Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  A Lebanese ghost story. Tarek, a young Syrian deserter, seeks refuge in Lebanon with the hope…

  

  Nadim Tabet / Lebanon, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Last Queen

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Algeria, 1516. Aruj Barbarossa, one of the most notorious pirates in history, frees Algiers fro…

  

  Damien Ounouri, Adila Bendimerad / Algeria, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia / Feature Narrative

• Mariam

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Ever since she attended the Hajj with her grandmother, Mariam has covered her head, but when Fr…

  

  Faiza Ambah / France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia / Short Narrative

• Miss Camel

  Fall Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  Melwah, a teenage camel, lives under the strict supervision of her father, and hangs out with h…

  

  Haifaa Al Mansour / Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• My Father's Scent

  Spring Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  A father returns home after a long absence due to his sudden illness and treatment. His teenage…

  

  Mohamed Siam / Egypt, Norway, Saudi Arabia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• My Sister and I

  Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  Set around two sisters in Riyadh, the series explores their contrasting lives. Mariam, the elde…

  

  Zaid Abu Hamdan, Lucy Der Tavitian / Saudi Arabia, Qatar / TV Series

• Rabet

  Spring Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  ‘Rabet’ (Ties) is a unique anthology series that transcends cultural stereotypes to present eig…

  

  Aya Al Blouchi, Basel Owies / Qatar, Tunisia, Jordan, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon / TV Series

• 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

• 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

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