• 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

• Our River...Our Sky

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production, Post-Production Stage

  Baghdad, 2006. All over the city, people of different religions are being forced out of their h…

  

  Maysoon Pachachi / United Kingdom, France, Germany, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Papicha

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  Algeria, 1990s—Nedjma is a free-spirited and independent young student. She refuses to allow th…

  

  Mounia Meddour / Algeria, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Paris the White

  Spring Grant 2015 -

  Aicha married Nour in 1962, the year of Algerian independence. Later, Nour went to work in Fran…

  

  Lidia Terki / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The People

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Mahfod Lakroune, Ahcen Djouzi and Amir Bensaid from the former troupe “Action Culturelle des Tr…

  

  Rahma Benhamou El Madani / Algeria, 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

• Plum Season

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Nouha, a 16-year-old teenager, lives in a close relationship with her mother. Her father reappe…

  

  Rim Mejdi / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Poisonous Roses

  Fall Grant 2015 -

  Twenty-eight-year-old Taheya works as a washroom cleaner, and lives with her 22-year-old brothe…

  

  Fawzi Saleh / Egypt, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Queen of the Hoggar (working title)

  Spring Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  Kella, a young princess, and her elder sister are forced to leave their home because of war. Th…

  

  Muhannad Lamin / Libya, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Queens

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Casablanca, Morocco. A trio of women with the police on their tail embarks on a long escape th…

  

  Yasmine Benkiran / Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Queens of Shadow

  Fall Grants 2020 - Development Stage

  As a young law student, Houria dares to file a complaint against her rapist. She ends up in pri…

  

  Aida Senna / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Rehana Maryam Noor

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  Rehana, a 37-year-old assistant professor in a private medical college, struggles to keep the h…

  

  Abdullah Mohammad Saad / Bangladesh, Singapore, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Searching For Kikhia (working Title)

  Spring Grants 2019 -

  When director Jihan Kikhia was six years old, her father disappeared. He flew to Cairo and neve…

  

  Jihan Kikhia / Libya, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Seven Mountains and Seven Seas

  Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  Tamar, an old man, lies sick in bed in his neat European apartment. He struggles to liberate hi…

  

  Noel Keserwany / France, Lebanon, Qatar / Short 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

• 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

• Soula

  Spring Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

  Soula, a young single mother, is rejected by her family in the name of honour. Having nowhere t…

  

  Salah Issaad / Algeria, France, Italy, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Speed Sisters

  Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Meet Marah, Mona, Betty, Noor and Maysoon – the first all-woman rally-racing team in the Middle…

  

  Amber Fares / Palestine, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Tangier Stories

  Fall Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  In contemporary Morocco, Hayat brings Soussen, her 12-year-old daughter, from their poor villag…

  

  Fyzal Boulifa / France, Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Targuia

  Fall Grants 2020 - Development Stage

  'Targuia' is the story of Tab, a 16-year-old nomadic girl living in the Sahara in southern Alge…

  

  Leïla Artese Benhadj / Algeria, France, Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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