• 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 This Darkness I See You

  Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  Tarek, a 30-year-old Syrian, joins a construction site set in the middle of a forest. Immediate…

  

  Nadim Tabet / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• In Vitro

  Fall Grants 2018 -

  In a converted nuclear reactor, 70-year-old Dunia, the dying founder of a hi-tech orchard, pass…

  

  Larissa Sansour / Palestine, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Joint Possession

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Tangier topography is in turmoil. Pharaonic real estate projects surround the Mansouria, a land…

  

  Leila Kilani / Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Journey

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Baghdad, 30 December, 2006. Sara, an unassuming young woman, enters Baghdad’s central train sta…

  

  Mohamed Jabarah Al Daradji / Iraq, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• LABAN: The False Prophets of Johann Sebastian Bach

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  The French take Lebanon over from the Ottoman Empire and decide to flood a village in order to…

  

  Daniel Joseph / Lebanon, France, Georgia, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Ladder to Damascus

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Ghalia moves to Damascus to study acting and rents a room in a traditional courtyard house, whe…

  

  Mohamad Malas / Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Lamb

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  As ‘Lamb’ opens, nine-year-old Ephraïm (an affecting As ‘Lamb’ opens, nine-year-old Ephraïm (an…

  

  Yared Zeleke / France, Ethiopia, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Land

  Fall Grant 2013 -

  The Denetclaws are a Native American family who live on the Prairie Wolf Indian Reservation. Ne…

  

  Babak Jalali / United Kingdom, Italy, France, Netherlands, Mexico, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Last Days of R.M.

  Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  R.M. is a writer threatened with death in 1990’s Algeria. He decides to go into exile in France…

  

  Amin Sidi-Boumédiène / France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Last Land

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Evangelina and Amancio, an elderly couple, live out their lives on an isolated hill. Evangelina…

  

  Pablo Lamar / Paraguay, Netherlands, Chile, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Last Queen

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Algeria, 1516. Aruj Barbarossa, one of the most notorious pirates in history, frees Algiers fro…

  

  Damien Ounouri, Adila Bendimerad / Algeria, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia / Feature Narrative

• The Last of Us

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  N crosses the desert to North Africa, intending to obtain illegal passage to Europe. After he i…

  

  Ala Eddine Slim / Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Layla In Dreamland

  Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  Layla is a 60-year-old refugee relocated to the seaside town of Margate with her undocumented g…

  

  Celine Cotran / United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Liborio

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Liborio is a peasant who gets lost in a hurricane and takes shelter in a cave. When his townshi…

  

  Fernando Martinez Sosa / Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Line of Sight

  Spring Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  The film opens with a single shot showing a confrontation between Laila and Sami. Laila, a 22-y…

  

  Aseel Mansour / Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Load

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Vlada works as a truck driver during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporti…

  

  Ognjen Glavonić / Serbia, France, Croatia, Iran, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Locust

  Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  Taipei, June 2019 - one of the hottest summers on record and an election year. Yet, despite the…

  

  KEFF / Taiwan, United States of America, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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