• An Unusual Summer

  Fall Grants 2019 -

  My father installed a surveillance camera and recorded the scenes in front of the house, contin…

  

  Kamal Aljafari / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Aziza

  Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  ‘Aziza’ is a documentary on the place that women occupy in the history of decolonization in Mor…

  

  Chahine Fellahi / Morocco, Qatar / Short Documentary

• Big Boys Don't Cry

  Spring Grants 2020 - Development Stage

  Yehia, a 35-year-old bodyguard, embodies a hyper-masculine image of power and violence. After h…

  

  Muhammad Mustapha / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Black Country

  Spring Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  The tanbour is an object of cultural unity; unrestricted by religion or nationalism, this music…

  

  Mahmoud Omar / Egypt, Qatar / Short Documentary

• By the Time It Gets Dark

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  By the Time It Gets Dark’ tells the interwoven stories of several characters: a film director a…

  

  Anocha Suwichakornpong / Thailand, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Companions of the White Arc

  Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  This film follows the journey of Moe Al Thani on his quest to climb Carstensz Pyramid, the fina…

  

  Elia Youssef, Mohammed Al Thani / Qatar, Jordan, Lebanon, Romania, Norway / Feature Documentary

• Crayons of Askalan

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  A creative documentary based on the powerful story of the Palestinian artist Zuhdi Al Adawi. IN…

  

  Laila Hotait Salas / Lebanon, Spain, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Dark Skull

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  After his father dies, Elder is forced to live with his grandmother – far away from the city –…

  

  Kiro Russo / Bolivia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Die Welt

  Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  'Die Welt' is an audacious hybrid of fiction and documentary, showing contemporary Tunisia shor…

  

  Karim Alexander Pitstra / Tunisia, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Experimental Summer

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Both Mahmoud and Zeinab join in the search for the original version of an Egyptian film that wa…

  

  Mahmoud Lotfy / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• The Fifth Resurrection of Farid

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. An old man comes across an odd collection of film reels, vinyl recor…

  

  Khalid Youssef / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• The First Supper

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  ‘The First Supper’ is a creative documentary that takes place behind closed doors in an isolate…

  

  Jamal Khalaile, Pauline Carbonnier / Palestine, France, Italy, 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 Foreign Son

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

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

  

  Abdallah Badis / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• From Abdul To Leila

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  After an accident that causes her to lose her memory and several years of exile, a young Franco…

  

  Leila Albayaty / Belgium, Germany, Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Ghetto Child

  Spring Grant 2013 -

  In a juvenile detention centre, Madi and his younger brother Bright try to fight the daily inju…

  

  Guillaume Tordjman / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Houston, We Have a Problem!

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  In 1948, a space programme was established in Yugoslavia, based on the diaries and technical pl…

  

  Žiga Virc / Slovenia, Germany, Croatia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Lonely Rock

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Fidel is a fifty-year-old llama herder living in a sparsely populated community in the Argentin…

  

  Alejandro Telemaco Tarraf / Argentina, Mexico, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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