• The Cave

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  To escape the ongoing aerial bombardment on hospitals and chemical weapon attacks that killed m…

  

  Feras Fayyad / Syria, Denmark, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Chasing the Dazzling Light

  Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  In a small town in central Sweden, Yaser embarks on a journey searching for inspiration to make…

  

  Yaser Kassab / Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Crown of Olives

  Fall Grants 2020 - Development Stage

  Reem leaves her small Moroccan village where producing olive oil is their only means of making…

  

  Muzna Almusafer / Oman, Italy, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Dancing Beirut

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  A group of dancers wander through Beirut, looking for spaces where they can generate visual, so…

  

  Alia Hamdan, Fares Chalabi / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Dar El Malika

  Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  Because she has only daughters, Malika finds herself homeless and almost destitute after the tr…

  

  Lotfi Bouchouchi / Algeria, Qatar / TV Series

• Daughters of Abdul-Rahman

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Single and middle-aged, Zainab lives a dreary existence as a local seamstress and her father’s…

  

  Zaid Abu Hamdan / Jordan, Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Day I Lost My Shadow

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Sana is a young mother struggling to raise her eight-year-old child in war-torn Syria in 2012.…

  

  Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Days of Grace

  Spring Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  A young Syrian man is faced with a dilemma: he has only a few days to leave Beirut to go abroad…

  

  Saleh Nass / Bahrain, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Divines

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  In a ghetto where trafficking and religion run side by side, Dounia is eager for power and succ…

  

  Houda Benyamina / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Do You Love Me

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  ‘Do You Love Me’ is an archive-based documentary that portrays the lived experiences of generat…

  

  Lana Daher / France, Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Don't Tell a Soul

  Spring Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  Faris, a Lebanese Muslim living in the US, awakens to discover the dead body of his wife’s ex-h…

  

  Nour Wazzi / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Dona Césaria

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Césaria Evora is an internationally renowned singer whose voice rings with the culture, ambienc…

  

  Dima Al-Joundi / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Dream Away

  Spring Grant 2014 - Development Stage

  Representing freedom and easy cash, Sharm El Sheikh has long been a dream destination for Egypt…

  

  Marouan Omara, Johanna Domke / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Dyouf

  Spring Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  After he is expelled from film school, Shadi moves back in with his parents in their Bedouin vi…

  

  Saleh Saadi / Palestine, Qatar / TV Series

• Délit De Solidarité

  Fall Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  France, 2016. Ariane lives alone in a house in the heart of the Roya Valley, making a modest in…

  

  Mounia Meddour / France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• El Bastardiya (Once Upon A Time In Tripoli)

  Fall Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  Murad, a young jobless engineer, works instead as a salesman. His father, a truck driver for an…

  

  Abdullah Al-Ghaly / Libya, Egypt, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Even Donkeys Have Remorse

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Inside a crumbling old house, Omar spends his days terrified of the outside, while Reem is pass…

  

  Shirin Abu Shaqra / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Everything That Has a Future

  Spring Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  Cairo, June 2015, 6:00 AM. An explosion shatters a window, knocking Lola, a 40-year old-Egyptia…

  

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

• The Exchange

  Fall Grants 2020 - Development Stage

  Kuwait. 1988. In two years, the country will be invaded by Iraq, but Farida is currently embroi…

  

  Nadia Ahmad / Kuwait, Qatar / TV Series

• Faraya

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  In its attempt to overcome a long-lasting economic crisis, the town hall of the luxurious Faray…

  

  Nadim Tabet, Mounia Akl / Lebanon, Qatar / TV Series

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