• Amparo

  Spring Grants 2020 -

  After a long night’s shift, Amparo, a single mother of two, returns home to find her children a…

  

  Simon Mesa Soto / Colombia, Sweden, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Beauty and the Dogs

  Fall Grants 2016 -

  During a student party, Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, meets the mysterious Youssef and leaves…

  

  Kaouther Ben Hania / Tunisia, France, Sweden, Norway, Lebanon, Qatar, Switzerland / Feature Narrative

• Brotherhood

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  Malik, an eighteen-year-old with flaming red hair, returns to his small village in Tunisia afte…

  

  Meryam Joobeur / Canada, Tunisia, Qatar, Sweden / Short Narrative

• Children of the Enemy

  Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  ‘Children of the Enemy’ is the story of bohemian musician Patricio whose daughter married one o…

  

  Gorki Glaser-Müller / Sweden, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Costa Brava, Lebanon

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  In ‘Costa Brava, Lebanon’, the free-spirited Badri family escape the overwhelming pollution and…

  

  Mounia Akl / Lebanon, France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Garbage Helicopter

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Somewhere in Sweden, a gigantic dumpster breaks loose from the heavy chain suspending it from a…

  

  Jonas Selberg Augustsén / Sweden, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Horseed

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Basketball, one of the oldest and most popular games among Somali women, is now an endangered s…

  

  Hana Mire / Somalia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Sweden, Congo, Republic of, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• Merry Christmas, Yiwu

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Communist ideals have long lost their value in Yiwu, a city with 600 Christmas factories, in wh…

  

  Mladen Kovacevic / Serbia, Sweden, Germany, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• My Father's Scent

  Spring Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  A father returns home after a long absence due to his sudden illness and treatment. His teenage…

  

  Mohamed Siam / Egypt, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Not Dead But Sleeping

  Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  ‘Not Dead But Sleeping’ is a film about two women whose worlds collide as they confront grief a…

  

  Arwa Aburawa, Turab Shah / Jordan, Sweden, United Kingdom, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Octopus

  Spring Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

  A filmmaker arrives to work on his new film and is confronted with a colossal explosion that ch…

  

  Karim Kassem / Lebanon, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Ouaga Girls

  Fall Grants 2016 -

  The sun shines over an open garage in Burkina Faso’s capital, where Bintou is lacquering a car…

  

  Theresa Traore Dahlberg / Burkina Faso, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Out of Place

  Fall Grants 2020 - Development Stage

  Mohammed, a chubby adolescent, is dancing the Dabke with his teenage friends in the cultural ce…

  

  Mohammed Al-Madjalawi / Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Plastic Flowers‏

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  A documentary about the experience of enforced disappearance in the prisons of ISIS told throug…

  

  Amer Mattar / Syria, Germany, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• Stronger than a Bullet

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, war propaganda has been Iran’s largest industry. In the n…

  

  Maryam Ebrahimi / Iran, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Weedestine

  Fall Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  In Palestine’s “Area C,” an unpoliced fractured zone, marijuana cultivation is thriving due to…

  

  Said Zagha / Palestine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Sweden / Feature Narrative

• Yalla Parkour

  Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  Now that his return is unattainable, Ahmad reflects on his undetermined journey out. Despite th…

  

  Areeb Zuaiter / Sweden, Jordan / Feature Documentary

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