• 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

• Arkala Gilgamesh's Dream

  Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  Chum-Chum, a nine-year-old dreamy street kid with diabetes, and his best friend, Moody, a tough…

  

  Mohamed Al-daradji / Iraq, United Arab Emirates, France, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Ayouni

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Bassel was a successful open source developer and hacker in Damascus. Paolo was a well-known pr…

  

  Yasmin Fedda / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Baby Mine

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  When a Middle Eastern man kidnaps his sickly daughter, her mother recruits a dubious neighbour…

  

  Nour Wazzi / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Bombay Rose

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Escaping from child marriage, Kamala makes flower garlands to sell on the streets of Bombay dur…

  

  Gitanjali Rao / India, France, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Don't Tell a Soul

  Spring Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  Faris, a Lebanese Muslim living in the US, awakens to discover the dead body of his wife’s ex-h…

  

  Nour Wazzi / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Fidaï

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  During the war in Algeria, El Hadi, the great uncle of filmmaker Damien Ounouri joined his sist…

  

  Damien Ounouri / Algeria, France, China, Germany, United Kingdom, 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

• Gaddafi's Girls

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Known as the Amazons or Revolutionary Nuns, they were personally selected by Colonel Gaddafi fo…

  

  Sylvia Stevens / Libya, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• A Gaza Weekend

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  The UN imposes an embargo on Israel following the outbreak of a deadly virus. However, due to i…

  

  Basil Khalil / Palestine, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Good Spirit

  Fall Grants 2024 - Development Stage

  Noor, a 22-year-old resident of Gaza, feels distant from her family. One day, she finds an inju…

  

  Razan Madhoon / United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Hitch 60 (working title)

  Spring Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  Two mod girls from South-East London embark on a journey across continents, travelling away fro…

  

  Sara Al Obaidly / Qatar, United Kingdom, Turkey / Feature Documentary

• Horseed

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Basketball, one of the oldest and most popular games among Somali women, is now an endangered s…

  

  Hana Mire / Somalia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Sweden, Congo, Republic of, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• In A Dream You Saw a Way to Survive and You Were Full of Joy

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Layal, 21, returns home one night after a sexual encounter and joins her mother Salma, who is u…

  

  Remi Itani / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• In Memory of Times to Come

  Fall Grants 2024 - Production Stage

  Bethlehem, 30 years after an eco-apocalypse. Alia lives a peaceful life with her husband, unawa…

  

  Larissa Sansour / Palestine, Denmark, Malta, United Kingdom, Qatar, France / Feature Narrative

• In the Future, They Ate from the Finest Porcelain

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  ‘In the Future, They Ate from the Finest Porcelain’ resides in the cross-section of sci-fi, arc…

  

  Larissa Sansour / Palestine, United Kingdom, Denmark, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• Ismail

  Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  A young Palestinian living in a refugee camp in 1949 struggles to escape imminent death when he…

  

  Nora Alsharif / Jordan, Palestine, United Kingdom, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Journey

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Baghdad, 30 December, 2006. Sara, an unassuming young woman, enters Baghdad’s central train sta…

  

  Mohamed Jabarah Al Daradji / Iraq, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Khartoum

  Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  Four Sudanese filmmakers mix observational documentary and innovative graphics, archives and an…

  

  Ibrahim Ahmad, Rawia Alhag, Anas Saeed, Timmea Ahmed / Sudan, United Kingdom, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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