• An Unusual Summer

  Fall Grants 2019 -

  My father installed a surveillance camera and recorded the scenes in front of the house, contin…

  

  Kamal Aljafari / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Ancestral Visions of the Future

  Fall Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

  At the heart of this cinematic ode lies the director’s biographical journey—a deeply personal e…

  

  Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese / France, Germany, Lesotho, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• 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

• The Dam

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Sudan, near the Merowe Dam. Maher works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nil…

  

  Ali Cherri / France, Sudan, Lebanon, Germany, Serbia, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Dancing Beirut

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  A group of dancers wander through Beirut, looking for spaces where they can generate visual, so…

  

  Alia Hamdan, Fares Chalabi / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• 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

• The Fifth Resurrection of Farid

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. An old man comes across an odd collection of film reels, vinyl recor…

  

  Khalid Youssef / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Firefly In The Darkness Of Time

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  I deal with the survival of memory and utopias, the ghosts of history that constantly reappear.…

  

  Djamel Kerkar / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• 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

• The Insomnia of a Serial Dreamer

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Facing his insomniac nature, the author of this film meets with several people, asking each one…

  

  Mohamad Soueid / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• A Lover's Manifesto

  Fall Grants 2024 - Production Stage

  "‘A Lover’s Manifesto’ is a history of Beirut, spanning from its inception as a modern city in…

  

  Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Mnemosyne

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  On a quest to remember, Shaza returns to her hometown of Alexandria, a decision triggered by th…

  

  Shaza Moharam / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production/Post-Production Stage

  What is left today from the Palestinian revolution are some images and sounds, pieces of film s…

  

  Mohanad Yaqubi / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• On Trials

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  The enacted. The robe. The absurd. Failed precedents. ‘On Trials’ is a film about realms of law…

  

  Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Ouroboros

  Fall Grants 2016 -

  Diego Marcon is a man with a broken heart who journeys into the heart of the human condition on…

  

  Basma Alsharif / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Roundabout in My Head

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  While it may seem strange to think of an abattoir as a place of peace and beauty, ‘Roundabout…

  

  Hassen Ferhani / Algeria, France, Lebanon, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Speak Image, Speak

  Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

  The image of the masked Palestinian assailants at the 1972 Olympic Games became a recurring mot…

  

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

• Tell it to Bridges

  Spring Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  It always started with a question about destination, and often times the answer had been indeci…

  

  Ali Hammoud / United States of America, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Temporarily

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Reham is a 24-year-old Syrian girl who studied acting in Syria. Because of the war there, she m…

  

  Reham Alkassar / Germany, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Watch Before Deletion

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  An episode of a radio show revisiting the life of an Arab music icon takes an unexpected turn w…

  

  Mohammad Shawky Hassan / Egypt, Germany, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

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