• 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

• Sahaab

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Following his brother’s death, Nasser and his friend Sanad decide to participate in a falcon ra…

  

  Khalifa Abdullah Al Muraikhi / Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Sanctorum

  Fall Grants 2018 -

  In a small town plagued by a war between the army and drug traffickers, a child has lost his mo…

  

  Joshua Gil / Mexico, Qatar / Feature 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

• Screwdriver

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Young Ziad is the star of the Jalazon Refugee Camp basketball team in Palestine. When his best…

  

  Bassam Jarbawi / Palestine, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Sea Ahead

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  A young woman walks out of the Beirut airport alone and makes her way back home to her parents’…

  

  Ely Dagher / Lebanon, France, Belgium, United States of America, 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

• The Seen and Unseen

  Spring Grants 2017, Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  ‘The Seen and Unseen’ is a mesmerising exploration of grief and healing through a child’s eyes.…

  

  Kamila Andini / Indonesia, Netherlands, Australia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Settlement

  Spring Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

  In present-day Alexandria, a factory worker, Sayed el-Deeb, dies on the job. The only compensat…

  

  Mohamed Rashad / Egypt, France, Germany, 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

• Shambhala

  Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  In the heart of Nepalese Himalayas, Pema, a spirited woman, embraces a polyandrous marriage wit…

  

  Min Bahadur Bham / Nepal, France, Norway, Hong Kong, Turkey, Taiwan, United States of America, 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

• The Silence of the Wind

  Fall Grants 2016 -

  Rafito deals in smuggling undocumented people from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico, a ter…

  

  Álvaro Aponte-Centeno / Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Sink

  Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  Nadia (40) is a wife and mother to three children. Through her seemingly perfect life, she stru…

  

  Zain Duraie / Jordan, France, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Sirena

  Fall Grants 2018 -

  Lake Titicaca, 1984. Renowned La Paz engineer Morgan Cabrera drowns in a boating accident. An u…

  

  Carlos Piñeiro / Bolivia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Sister

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  In a small town in present-day Bulgaria, a mother and her two daughters are struggling to survi…

  

  Svetla Tsotsorkova / Bulgaria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Sivas

  Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Set in a bleak Anatolian village, ‘Sivas’ tells the story of 11-year-old Aslan and Sivas, a wea…

  

  Kaan Müjdeci / Turkey, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Six Feet Over

  Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  Sofiane is an Algerian who has enjoyed a relatively easy life growing up abroad as a diplomat's…

  

  Karim Bensalah / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Sofia

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  Sofia lives with her parents in Casablanca. Suffering from pregnancy denial, she finds herself…

  

  Meryem Benm’Barek / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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