• Rabies

  Spring Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  Julia (60) is an ageing History professor who was a fighter in the Lebanese war. A free soul, s…

  

  Sandra Tabet / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Red Olive Tree

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  The Belmakis, an upper-middle-class family in France, appear to lead a trouble-free life; all,…

  

  Karim Bensalah / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Red Valentine

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Jad is a 30-year-old socialite who thinks he’s a poet. His family is pressuring him to take ove…

  

  Amin Matalqa / Jordan, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Rent-a-Mama

  Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

  Nuhad, a 60-year-old Lebanese supermom with a big heart and a big fear of change, lives in her…

  

  Dania Bdeir / Lebanon, Canada, Qatar / TV Series

• A Reverence for Spiders

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  New York-based imam Omar Metwally develops an unlikely friendship with the homeless teenager wh…

  

  Faiza Ambah / Saudi Arabia, United States of America, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Road Trip

  Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

  Khammar, a 72-year-old garage owner in Vaulx-en-Velin, a suburb of Lyon, considers his garage h…

  

  LINDA QIBAA / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• A Road to Damascus

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Based on Meedo’s novel of the same title. A bus carrying immigrant farmers is gunned down just…

  

  Meedo Taha / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Running With Beasts

  Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

  Amid the Lebanese economic crisis, a group of five high schoolers meets one last time after gra…

  

  Leila Basma / Czech Republic, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Saffron's Land

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  In the Atlas Mountains lies Safrana, an isolated village that was repeatedly attacked by the Fr…

  

  Yassine El Idrissi / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Salaam Plenty

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  'Salaam Plenty' is about the memory and erasure of the presence of Afghan cameleers in Australi…

  

  Samira (Yasmine) Kassari / Morocco, Australia, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Sandogi (My Treasure Chest)

  Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  A middle-aged man is left to question his existence as he goes through an extraordinary journey…

  

  Noor Alkuwari / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Scales

  Fall Grant 2014 - Development Stage

  The only source of the food on the island is mermaid flesh. The only way to keep the food suppl…

  

  Shahad Ameen / Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Search for the Star Pearl

  Fall Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  Ali ibn Hamad, a brave, 17-year-old Qatari boy, sails the unknown seas with his friends, the fu…

  

  Hafiz Ali Ali / Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Shadow of a Man

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Ahmad, 26, is the best mechanic in the mountains of Lebanon. The only car he hasn’t had time an…

  

  Niam Itani / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Shelter

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Ahmad struggles to survive in the ghettos of Beirut. He cannot remember his past or where he ca…

  

  Kasem Kharsa / Lebanon, Qatar, Iraq, Egypt / Feature Narrative

• Ship Of Fools

  Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  She didn’t even know they were bombs. When her father could no longer pretend they were falling…

  

  Alia Haju / Germany, Lebanon, Qatar / Short Documentary

• Son of a Dog

  Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  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

• Souraya Mon Amour (Working Title)

  Fall Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  Excerpts from the film 'Little Wars', an old correspondence, and other family and personal arch…

  

  Nicolas Khoury / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Speak Image, Speak

  Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

  Palestinian history is largely ignored by the German public. After the attack by Palestinian as…

  

  Pary El-Qalqili / Germany, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Split-Screen

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  Two men, 'A' and 'B', are drinking coffee. They receive anonymous texts telling them their drin…

  

  Fahad Al Khater, Nadia Al-Khater / Qatar / Short Narrative

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