• After Tahar

  Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  A patriarch, Tahar: Indochina war, psychiatric hospitals. A grandmother, Taklit: marriage, exil…

  

  Soufiane Adel / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary or Essay

• Behind Closed Doors

  Fall Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  ‘Behind Closed Doors’ is a portrait of a farming family living in one of the most marginalised…

  

  Yakout Elhababi / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Bel Falastini

  Fall Grants 2024 - Production Stage

  Jamil Atrash was born in a refugee camp in the 1950s. Throughout his life, he built a successfu…

  

  Obada Jarbi / Jordan, Qatar / Short Documentary

• Chaos

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  ‘Chaos’ narrates the story of three women in three cities – three women who have given up on li…

  

  Sara Fattahi / Syria, Austria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Climbing the Mountains

  Spring Grants 2024 - Production Stage

  The film begins with a haunting nightmare characterised by the sounds of helicopters, dark anim…

  

  Sabrina Chebbi / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Egyptian Jeanne d'Arc

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  ‘Egyptian Jeanne d’Arc’ is a creative documentary that explores issues of female emancipation i…

  

  Iman Kamel / Kuwait, Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Foreign Son

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Answering the call of his homeland, of which he retains only childhood memories, 50-year-old Om…

  

  Abdallah Badis / France, Qatar, Algeria / Feature Documentary

• The Forgotten

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  A journey in the life of Kozo Okamoto, a Japanese freedom fighter and member of the Japanese Re…

  

  Ghada Terawi / Palestine, Qatar, United Arab Emirates / Feature Documentary

• The Forgotten

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Mustafa steals across the Israeli border with the help of a local smuggler. This is a one-way t…

  

  Ehab Tarabieh / Syria, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Guardian Of The Worlds

  Spring Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

  Hassan recalls the first night that Jellaz became his shelter. After burying his parents and tw…

  

  Léïla Chaïbi / France, Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• House No. 7

  Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  After leaving their homes, trying to escape their conservative societies, and in pursuit of bas…

  

  Rama Abdi / Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• In The Middle

  Spring Grants 2019 -

  In a rarely seen perspective of war, we follow Ali—a Yemeni soldier on tour in the temporary ca…

  

  Mariam Al-Dhubhani / Yemen, Qatar / Short Documentary

• In the Shade of a Royal Palace (Dwellers of the Cabins)

  Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  Through her relationship with her musician father, Hend tries to discover the history of her pe…

  

  Hend Bakr / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Invented Biography

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Arturo Belano, alter ego of the writer Roberto Bolaño, shared with his creator a significant pa…

  

  Nicolás Lasnibat / France, Chile, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Looking For the Man with the Camera

  Spring Grant 2015 -

  "Looking for the Man with the Camera" is a journey that takes the narrator from Geneva to the…

  

  Boutheyna Bouslama / France, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• My Father's House

  Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  In 2012, two weeks after ‘A World Not Ours’ was completed, my father died at the age of 59. He…

  

  Mahdi Fleifel / Denmark, United Kingdom, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• 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

• Nadia

  Fall Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

  How can you rebuild yourself when you lose your father and your homeland forever at the age of…

  

  Anissa Bonnefont / France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Naz (working title)

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  One of the most successful and entertaining sporting icons of the 1990s, Naseem Hamed’s unique…

  

  Omar El-Khairy, Ana Naomi de Sousa / Palestine, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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