• HOPE

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Facing challenges from life and human pollution, Aqua sets off on a life-changing journey to hi…

  

  Abdulla Al Jananhi / Indonesia, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Habibi and I in Eden

  Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  On a foggy dark night where Sara’s family believes she is at her friend’s baby reception, and w…

  

  Sara Mesfer / Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Haneen

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Haneen, a woman in her mid-60s, lives alone in a Palestinian city, estranged from her husband a…

  

  Ossama Bawardi / Palestine, Jordan, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Harakat!

  Spring Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  Aalia (14) and Haya (14) are two cool kids who spend their endless afternoons at the skatepark.…

  

  Nadia Al-Khater / Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Heaviness of Absence

  Spring Grants 2024 - Production Stage

  Zakaria, a 21-year-old English literature student in war-torn Damascus, struggles to survive am…

  

  Jalal Maghout / Syria, Germany, Qatar / Short 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

• Hope

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Hévi and Walat, a Kurdish-Syrian refugee couple in their thirties meet a human trafficker. They…

  

  Mohammad Shaikhow / Syria, Iraq, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• How My Grandmother Became A Chair

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  The heartless sea is relentlessly approaching poor grandmother’s house. By losing her five sens…

  

  Nicolas Fattouh / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• How The Sea Became Salty

  Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  Yara is abandoning her life and leaving Egypt for good. She refuses her friend's Amr offer to d…

  

  Maysoon El-Massry / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• I Am Afraid To Forget Your Face

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  After being separated for 2 months, Adam travels down a rough road to be reunited, whatever it…

  

  Sameh Morsy / Egypt, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• I Promise You Paradise

  Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  Following a violent incident; Eissa a 17 years old illegal African migrant in Egypt is in a que…

  

  Morad Mostafa / Egypt, France, Qatar / Short 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

• IALU: The Field of Dreams

  Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  Living in Phantasma, one can barely see outside beyond its massive walls. Gates seem empty, wit…

  

  Mostafa Youssef / Egypt, Qatar / Short Narrative

• IZRIQAQ

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  In a land dotted with killing machines, Yassine finds an easy cover-up for his crime. But even…

  

  Rama Mari / Palestine, Norway, Qatar / Short Narrative

• If Only

  Spring Grants 2024 - Production Stage

  A small house in the up-and-coming neighbourhood of Madinat Khalifa is home to a recently marri…

  

  Ali Al Anssari / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Inside Me

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  A young Egyptian girl living with a conservative group that follows communal acts and practices…

  

  Halla Tarek / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Ismail

  Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  A young Palestinian living in a refugee camp in 1949 struggles to escape imminent death when he…

  

  Nora Alsharif / Jordan, Palestine, United Kingdom, Qatar / Short Narrative

• J'ai Le Cafard

  Spring Grants 2019 -

  Maryam, a single forty-two-year-old office employee is struggling with keeping up the appearanc…

  

  Maysaa Almumin / Kuwait, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Kashta

  Fall Grants 2016 -

  Out in the beautiful quiet of the windswept dunes, a man teaches his young sons the traditional…

  

  A.J. Al Johara Al Thani / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Kendila

  Fall Grants 2020 -

  The story depicts a neo-apocalyptic world told through the landscape of the polluted village of…

  

  Nadia Rais / Tunisia, Qatar / Short Narrative

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