• Her Mother's Daughter

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Tamara, sexy and sparkling, is a professor of biology at the American University of Beirut. She…

  

  Dima El-Horr / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Honey Cigar

  Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  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

• Hope

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  The short film ‘Hope’ is about a newborn baby sea turtle named Aqua, born with a disability of…

  

  Abdulla Al Jananhi / Qatar / Short Narrative

• 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

• A House in Jerusalem

  Spring Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  Young Rebecca is forced to move with her father from the UK to Jerusalem, in the hopes that a n…

  

  Muayad Alayan / Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Housekeeping

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Farida, a strong-willed Egyptian woman in her 50s, is a cleaning lady who works and lives in an…

  

  Mazen Khaled / Lebanon, Egypt, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• I Wished for Solitude

  Fall Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  Bader, a young man, grapples with the reality of his vanishing visage. In a tender gesture of l…

  

  Hamad Alfayhani / Qatar / Short Narrative

• I, Hummus

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  When I landed in Canada in 2006, I became recognized as a giant walking plate of hummus. Being…

  

  Rawane Nassif / Lebanon, Canada, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• In A Dream You Saw a Way to Survive and You Were Full of Joy

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Layal, 21, returns home one night after a sexual encounter and joins her mother Salma, who is u…

  

  Remi Itani / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• James Dean and Me

  Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  In 1967, in the shadow of the looming Arab-Israeli War, a Palestinian teenager watches James De…

  

  Sameh Zoabi / Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Jet Set Arabia

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  In ‘Jet Set Arabia’, we will follow along on the journey of what it takes to become a contempor…

  

  Abdulla Al-Abdulla, Basel Owies / Qatar / TV Series

• Just Like a Dream

  Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

  On August 4th, 2020, Beirut experienced one of history's largest explosions, resulting in over…

  

  Corine Shawi / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Kohl & Cardamom

  Spring Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  In a small Egyptian town in the late 1980s, Abdullah (14 years old) leads what seems to be a ca…

  

  Fady Atallah / Egypt, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Last Words

  Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

  After losing her young brother in a chemical factory blast, 18-year-old Nour develops strange p…

  

  Antoine Waked / Lebanon, Canada, Qatar / TV Series

• Lemon Hart

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  In a story of how courage transcends fear, a young American girl living in Le Var, France refle…

  

  Sara Al-Thani / Qatar, France / Short Narrative

• Let the Earth Burn

  Fall Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  Despite getting excellent results, recent police academy graduate Kenza is posted to a remote s…

  

  Sofia Alaoui / France, Qatar / TV Series

• Lost in a Desert

  Spring Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  A journey to the desert sees a group of photographers face challenges during their photoshoot.…

  

  Mohammed Al-Heidous / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Machtat

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Fatma and her two daughters Najeh and Waffeh, live in the neighbourhood of Bir Beranek in Mahdi…

  

  Sonia Ben Slama / Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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