• 7 KM - Seven Kilometers

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  1992, somewhere in Algeria. Omar and Othman, two boys from the same poor village, walk the seve…

  

  Oussama Benhassine / Algeria, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Alam

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Palestinian student Tamer doesn’t meddle in politics; at the same time, the memory of his uncle…

  

  Firas Khoury / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Algiers by Night

  Spring Grant 2012 -

  The sun sets over the Bay of Algiers. The city walls start to lose their shiny white, making ro…

  

  Yanis Koussim / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Another Birth

  Spring Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

  Set in a small rural village nestled in the vast mountains of Badakhshan, eight-year-old Parast…

  

  Isabelle Kalandar / Tajikistan, USA, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Ava

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  Ava’s first visit to the gynaecologist with her mother is a traumatic experience for the young…

  

  Sadaf Foroughi / Iran, Canada, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Aya

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Seven-year-old Aya lives in an inner-city neighbourhood of Marseille. Intelligent and obsessed…

  

  Moufida Fedhila / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Badr on the Moon

  Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

  ‘Badr on the Moon’ follows Badr, a curious young boy living with his parents on a moon colony.…

  

  Aisha Al-Jaidah, Kholoud Al Ali / Jordan, Qatar / TV Series

• 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

• Beit Byoot

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Set in a dystopian dollhouse, little Jameela seeks the acceptance of two mean girls. But when s…

  

  Mayar Hamdan / Jordan, Qatar / Short Narrative

• 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

• Birdshot

  Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Fifteen-year-old Maya works with her father on an isolated farm in the Philippines. While ventu…

  

  Mikhail Red / Philippines, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Brotherhood

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  Malik, an eighteen-year-old with flaming red hair, returns to his small village in Tunisia afte…

  

  Meryam Joobeur / Canada, Tunisia, Qatar, Sweden / Short Narrative

• The Closet Sessions (Season 2)

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  ‘The Closet Sessions’ concept existed ever since hip-hop artist and director Ahmad “Satti” Ibra…

  

  Ahmad Ibrahim / Jordan, Qatar / Web Series

• Daughters of Abdul-Rahman

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Single and middle-aged, Zainab lives a dreary existence as a local seamstress and her father’s…

  

  Zaid Abu Hamdan / Jordan, Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Deep Long Breath

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  In 18 days, the January 25 Egyptian Revolution toppled a three-decade-old dictatorship and Egyp…

  

  Tahani Rached / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• Disappearance

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  In an Iranian culture that operates within strict social mores, Sara, a university student, and…

  

  Ali Asgari / Iran, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Divines

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  In a ghetto where trafficking and religion run side by side, Dounia is eager for power and succ…

  

  Houda Benyamina / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Dream Away

  Spring Grant 2014 - Development Stage

  Representing freedom and easy cash, Sharm El Sheikh has long been a dream destination for Egypt…

  

  Marouan Omara, Johanna Domke / 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

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