Spring Grant 2013
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Khalil Suleiman has always preferred to stay away from other people, but after his wife’s death…
Sherif El Bendary / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative
The seventies were the last Moroccan period in which struggles and dreams for change were a rea…
Abdelali Essafi / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary
‘Egyptian Jeanne d’Arc’ is a creative documentary that explores issues of female emancipation i…
Iman Kamel / Kuwait, Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Inspired by real events, ‘Eyes of a Thief’ is a rare glimpse into Palestinian society from the…
Najwa Najjar / Palestine, Algeria, France, Iceland, Jordan, Qatar / Feature Narrative
Answering the call of his homeland, of which he retains only childhood memories, 50-year-old Om…
Abdallah Badis / France, Qatar, Algeria / Feature Documentary
In a small neighbourhood of a traditional Lebanese coastal town, Leba, a music instructor, marr…
Amin Dora / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative
In a juvenile detention centre, Madi and his younger brother Bright try to fight the daily inju…
Guillaume Tordjman / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative
Nidal, a Syrian filmmaker, must leave his home city of Damascus. He locks his door behind him a…
Nidal Al Dibs / Egypt, Qatar, Syria / Feature Documentary
Paris, 1993—Selma, 17, lives in a bourgeois and secular Berber family in the suburbs. When she…
Kamir Aïnouz / Algeria, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative
In 1967, in the shadow of the looming Arab-Israeli War, a Palestinian teenager watches James De…
Sameh Zoabi / Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative
Ever since she attended the Hajj with her grandmother, Mariam has covered her head, but when Fr…
Faiza Ambah / France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia / Short Narrative
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
Nawara, a woman in her 20s, works as a housemaid in the home of Ossama Bey and his family, who…
Hala Khalil / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative
Nine men gather for a workshop on a rooftop. There they perform confrontations of everyday life…
Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Conducting the trains of Line #1, the country’s deadliest, five employees struggle with the dar…
Erige Sehiri / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Two films to tell the incredible tale of the metamorphosis of the Gulf’s emirates over the cour…
Frédéric Compain / France, Qatar, Kuwait / Feature Documentary
Set against the backdrop of a never-ending war, ‘Son of a Dog’ is the coming-of-age story of 17…
Alain Sauma / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative
When disaster strikes, the NASA (National Agency Survival & Arabic) publishes a call for applic…
Nadia Rais / Tunisia, Qatar / Short Narrative
Arabia, 1916. Theeb [Wolf] lives with his Bedouin tribe in a forgotten corner of the Ottoman Em…
Naji Abu Nowar / Jordan, United Kingdom, Qatar, United Arab Emirates / Feature Narrative
Timbuktu, a historic and multicultural city in the West African nation of Mali, is taken over b…
Abderrahmane Sissako / France, Mauritania, Qatar / Feature Narrative