• 1982

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  A DFI Inclusive Screening Working in partnership with the Translation and Interpre…

  

  Oualid Mouaness / Lebanon, United States of America, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• All That Passes By Through A Window That Doesn't Open

  Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Amid the attempt to revive a ‘new Silk Road’ between Europe and Asia, Azerbaijani men labour to…

  

  Martin DiCicco / United States of America, Georgia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Bull Shark

  Spring Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  ‘Bull Shark’ is inspired by real events that took place during the second wave of economic grow…

  

  Mohammed Al Ibrahim / Qatar, Bahrain, United States of America / Feature Narrative

• The Cave

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  To escape the ongoing aerial bombardment on hospitals and chemical weapon attacks that killed m…

  

  Feras Fayyad / Syria, Denmark, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• City of the Sun

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Imagined as a city of the future during the Soviet era, the once-celebrated manganese-mining to…

  

  Rati Oneli / Georgia, United States of America, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Don't Get Too Comfortable

  Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  When Shaima Al-Tamimi’s paternal grandfather migrated from Yemen to Zanzibar half a century ago…

  

  Shaima Al Tamimi / Yemen, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Netherlands, Qatar / Short Experimental

• Egypt's Modern Pharaohs

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  On January 25, 1952, downtown Cairo was burnt down: angry mobs demanded the departure of Britis…

  

  Jihan El Tahri / Egypt, France, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Facing the Dragon

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  In a documentary filmed over four years, filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi intimately follows two uncon…

  

  Sedika Mojadidi / Afghanistan, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Fair Light of Dawn

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  'The Fair Light of Dawn’ offers a kaleidoscopic view of the lives of several citizens in Beirut…

  

  Hisham Bizri / Lebanon, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Faya Dayi

  Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  'Faya Dayi' is a uniquely beautiful, award-winning documentary that explores the widespread use…

  

  Jessica Beshir / Ethiopia, United States of America, 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

• 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

• 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

• Hunting Season

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  After his mother dies, 17-year-old Nahuel is shipped from Buenos Aires to the south of Argentin…

  

  Natalia Garagiola / Argentina, France, Germany, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Liyana

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Liyana is a young, fictional girl created by several young orphans in Swaziland, where the scou…

  

  Aaron Kopp, Amanda Kopp / Swaziland, Qatar, United States of America / Feature Documentary

• Locust

  Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  Taipei, June 2019 - one of the hottest summers on record and an election year. Yet, despite the…

  

  KEFF / Taiwan, United States of America, France, Qatar / Feature 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

• Midnight Traveler

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee wi…

  

  Hassan Fazili / Afghanistan, United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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