• Amateurs, Stars and Extras, or the Labor of Love

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  This experimental documentary examines the commercial television and film industries. It looks…

  

  Marwa Arsanios / Egypt, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Cinema Palestine

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  This film will focus on the ‘fourth wave’ of Palestinian cinema, running from 1980 to the prese…

  

  Tim Schwab / Palestine, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Crayons of Askalan

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  A creative documentary based on the powerful story of the Palestinian artist Zuhdi Al Adawi. IN…

  

  Laila Hotait Salas / Lebanon, Spain, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Egyptian Jeanne d'Arc

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  ‘Egyptian Jeanne d’Arc’ is a creative documentary that explores issues of female emancipation i…

  

  Iman Kamel / Kuwait, Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The First Supper

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  ‘The First Supper’ is a creative documentary that takes place behind closed doors in an isolate…

  

  Jamal Khalaile, Pauline Carbonnier / Palestine, France, Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Forgotten

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Mustafa steals across the Israeli border with the help of a local smuggler. This is a one-way t…

  

  Ehab Tarabieh / Syria, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Freedom Fields

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  In post-revolution Libya, a group of women are brought together by one dream: to play football…

  

  Naziha Arebi / Libya, United Kingdom, United States of America, Netherlands, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• A Gaza Weekend

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  The UN imposes an embargo on Israel following the outbreak of a deadly virus. However, due to i…

  

  Basil Khalil / Palestine, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Go Home

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Nada is going home. Or at least she wants to. When she returns to Lebanon, she realises she's a…

  

  Jihane Chouaib / Lebanon, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Marjoun is 17 years old and an outsider in her home of Little Rock, Arkansas. While her father…

  

  Susan Youssef / Lebanon, Netherlands, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Men in the Sun

  Fall Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  Chatila, Fatah and Abu-Love, three Palestinian refugees, dream of escaping Athens after seven y…

  

  Mahdi Fleifel / Palestine, Greece, United Kingdom, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• My Uncle the "Terrorist"

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  When I was a child, there was a portrait of a man in our house. I never knew who he was; nobody…

  

  Elias Moubarak / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Playtime

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Matthew lives with his mother, an army secretary, in Ahmadi, Kuwait. One night, she leaves him…

  

  Hamad Al-Tourah / Kuwait, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Theeb

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Arabia, 1916. Theeb [Wolf] lives with his Bedouin tribe in a forgotten corner of the Ottoman Em…

  

  Naji Abu Nowar / Jordan, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom / Feature Narrative

• What's Your Story? Part I

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production/Post-production Stage

  Jamal, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, meets five young Israelis with differing ideological pe…

  

  Jamal Khalaile, Pauline Carbonnier / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Window

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Baghdad under the American occupation. Iraq is in a power vacuum; anarchy is rife; curfews are…

  

  Koutaiba Al-Janabi / Iraq, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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