• A House in Jerusalem

  Spring Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  Young Rebecca is forced to move with her father from the UK to Jerusalem, in the hopes that a n…

  

  Muayad Alayan / Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Housekeeping

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Farida, a strong-willed Egyptian woman in her 50s, is a cleaning lady who works and lives in an…

  

  Mazen Khaled / Lebanon, Egypt, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• I Wished For Solitude

  Fall Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  A man is born with a rare illness that causes him to slowly lose his face throughout his life a…

  

  Hamad Alfayhani / Qatar / Short Narrative

• I, Hummus

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  When I landed in Canada in 2006, I became recognized as a giant walking plate of hummus. Being…

  

  Rawane Nassif / Lebanon, Canada, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• In A Dream You Saw a Way to Survive and You Were Full of Joy

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Layal, 21, returns home one night after a sexual encounter and joins her mother Salma, who is u…

  

  Remi Itani / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• In the Shade of a Royal Palace (Dwellers of the Cabins)

  Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  Through her relationship with her musician father, Hend tries to discover the history of her pe…

  

  Hend Bakr / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• InshAllah a Boy

  Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  After the sudden death of her husband, Nawal is struggling to cope with the upheaval in her lif…

  

  Amjad Al Rasheed / Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, France / Feature Narrative

• James Dean and Me

  Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  In 1967, in the shadow of the looming Arab-Israeli War, a Palestinian teenager watches James De…

  

  Sameh Zoabi / Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Jet Set Arabia

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  In ‘Jet Set Arabia’, we will follow along on the journey of what it takes to become a contempor…

  

  Abdulla Al-Abdulla, Basel Owies / Qatar / TV Series

• 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

• Lemon Hart

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  In a story of how courage transcends fear, a young American girl living in Le Var, France refle…

  

  Sara Al-Thani / Qatar, France / Short Narrative

• Let the Earth Burn

  Fall Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  Despite getting excellent results, recent police academy graduate Kenza is posted to a remote s…

  

  Sofia Alaoui / France, Qatar / TV Series

• Lost in a Desert

  Spring Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  A journey to the desert sees a group of photographers face challenges during their photoshoot.…

  

  Mohammed Al-Heidous / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Machtat

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Fatma and her two daughters Najeh and Waffeh, live in the neighbourhood of Bir Beranek in Mahdi…

  

  Sonia Ben Slama / Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Mama 'Oda

  Fall Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  Hassan and Noura notice the effort their grandmother gives to the family and the house, so they…

  

  Yousif Al Hamadi / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Mama, Where Are You?

  Fall Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Abbas is a 37-year-old bachelor who still lives with his parents in Kuwait. Passive, immature,…

  

  Meqdad Al-Kout / Kuwait, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Maqloubeh

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Five young art students awake to the sound of gunfire and bombardment. As the electricity has b…

  

  Nicolas Damuni / Palestine, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Mary

  Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  'Mary' showcases a bittersweet story about the daily life of a 65-year-old woman, Mary, and her…

  

  Abdulaziz Khashabi, Abdulla Al-Janahi / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Matoub Lounès: The Story of a Legend

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  In the Berber-speaking world, Kabyle singer Matoub Lounès is a legend. Assassinated in 1998, he…

  

  Régine Abadia / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Me Myself and Murdoch

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Ahmad is a 22-year-old Palestinian from a conservative Muslim family in Hebron. With his friend…

  

  Yahya Alabdallah / Palestine, Jordan, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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