• 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

• 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

• Silent Storms

  Spring Grants 2020 - Development Stage

  Strange storms of yellow dust fall on a town. Nacer, a 45-year-old journalist, is covering the…

  

  Dania Reymond-Boughenou / Algeria, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Simple Cut

  Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  After 14-year-old Kholoud rebels and cuts her hair without her mother's approval, what should b…

  

  Maha Al-Jefairi / Qatar / Short Narrative

• A Simple Cut

  Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  After 13-year-old Kholoud rebels and cuts her hair without her mother's approval, what should b…

  

  Maha Al-Jefairi / Qatar / Short 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

• The Siren of Faso Fani

  Fall Grant 2013 -

  Through the eyes of former workers at the once-famous cotton factory in Burkina Faso, ‘The Sire…

  

  Michel K. Zongo / Burkina Faso, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• The Sixth Story

  Fall Grants 2024 - Development Stage

  "Ahmed feels an undeniable urge to revisit a memory he has tried to suppress for seventeen long…

  

  Ahmed Abd / Iraq, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Sleepless City

  Fall Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

  La Cañada Real, on the outskirts of Madrid, is one of the largest illegal shanty towns in Europ…

  

  Guillermo García López / Spain, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Sleepless nights

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Two people irrevocably changed by war come together in ‘Confession and Struggle,’ an unflinchin…

  

  Eliane Raheb / Lebanon, France, United Arab Emirates, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Smile You Deserve It

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  A forever-smiling farmer proves that hard work and optimism can bring you the fruit of success.…

  

  Ibrahim Albuainain / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Soaring Over Mayhem

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  In the brutal lands of northern Syria, 10- year-old bird enthusiast Rami struggles to survive a…

  

  Abdullah Al-Wazzan / Kuwait, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Sociophobia

  Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  A young boy is strolling with his parents on a bustling street but manages to slip away from th…

  

  Malek Hebiri / Tunisia, Qatar / Short 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

• Somebody Clap for Me

  Fall Grant 2012 -

  This poetic rollercoaster ride chronicles Ugandan youth reclaiming their right to a voice by br…

  

  Luciana Ceccatto Farah / Brazil, Uganda, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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