• 200 Meters

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Mustafa and his wife Salwa come from two Palestinian villages that are only 200 meters apart, b…

  

  Ameen Nayfeh / Palestine, Jordan, France, Germany, Italy, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Abou Leila

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  Algeria, 1994. Terrorist attacks have ravaged the north of the country for the past two years.…

  

  Amin Sidi-Boumédiène / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• BEFORE THE DAY BREAKS

  Fall Grants 2024 - Production Stage

  Nour is a Pakistani heavyweight truck driver in his thirties who lives in Qatar, miles away fro…

  

  Amal Al-Muftah / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Birds of September

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production/Post-Production Stage

  Hiding behind the glass of his moving bubble, the narrator explores the streets of Beirut while…

  

  Sarah Francis / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Daoud's Winter

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Iraq, winter 1988. Daoud, a young man from Baghdad, is drafted into the war with Iran. At the f…

  

  Koutaiba Al-Janabi / Iraq, Lebanon, Netherlands, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Day I Lost My Shadow

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Sana is a young mother struggling to raise her eight-year-old child in war-torn Syria in 2012.…

  

  Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Day I Lost My Shadow

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Sana is a young mother struggling to raise her eight-year-old child in war-torn Syria in 2012.…

  

  Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Fragments From Heaven

  Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  The Moroccan desert has recently experienced several large meteor showers. In its arid lands no…

  

  Adnane Baraka / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• House Without Roof

  Fall Grant 2013 -

  ‘House Without Roof’ tells the journey of Alan, Jan and Liya, three siblings born in the Kurdis…

  

  Soleen Yusef / Iraq, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• How The Sea Became Salty

  Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  Yara is abandoning her life and leaving Egypt for good. She refuses her friend's Amr offer to d…

  

  Maysoon El-Massry / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Kashta

  Fall Grants 2016 -

  Out in the beautiful quiet of the windswept dunes, a man teaches his young sons the traditional…

  

  A.J. Al Johara Al Thani / Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Man Who Stole Banksy

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  In 2007, anonymous street artist and activist Banksy painted a number of politically divisive a…

  

  Marco Proserpio / United Kingdom, Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Men in the Sun

  Fall Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  Chatila, Fatah and Abu-Love, three Palestinian refugees, dream of escaping Athens after seven y…

  

  Mahdi Fleifel / Palestine, Greece, United Kingdom, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Mimosas

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  An elderly sheikh, nearing death, seeks to travel to his birthplace in the Atlas Mountains so h…

  

  Oliver Laxe Coro / Spain, Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Missing Camel

  Fall Grants 2021 - Production Stage

  In 2007, the President of the French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, gave a speech in Dakar stating…

  

  Cheikh N'diaye / Morocco, France, Senegal, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Odd town

  Spring Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  Khaled, a young man, starts his day with his usual morning routine. Before leaving, his father…

  

  Mohammed Fakhroo / Qatar / Short Narrative

• On the Hillsides

  Fall Grants 2016 -

  A wind of liberty called the Arab Spring has been blowing in this part of the world. Algeria re…

  

  Abdallah Badis / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Our Madness

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  Lucy is hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital in Mozambique. She dreams about her little son,…

  

  João Viana / Portugal, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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