• Ibrahim, a Fate to Define

  Fall Grant 2015 -

  Ibrahim Alabed, my father, was a secret member of the Revolutionary Council, a Palestinian mili…

  

  Lina Alabed / Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• In The House Of My Father

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  Twenty-eight years ago, when Rachida was just 16, her father forced her to marry a Moroccan man…

  

  Rachida El Garani / Morocco, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• In The Name Of Safia

  Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  An unfinished interview with my father, Tayeb Kessas, in February 2019, just before his death,…

  

  Safia Kessas / Algeria, Belgium, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• In the Claws of a Century Wanting

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Anne gives birth to her third child. Akira learns reading and writing while foraging for scrap…

  

  Jewel Maranan / Philippines, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• In this Land Lay Graves of Mine

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production/Post-Production Stage

  In 2009, I sold my land in my village in South Lebanon to a Muslim, stirring a sectarian discou…

  

  Reine Mitri / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Invasion

  Fall Grant 2013 - Post-Production Stage

  On the night of 20 December, 1989, the USA launched a massive invasion of otherwise peaceful Pa…

  

  Abner Benaim / Panama, Argentina, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Invented Biography

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Arturo Belano, alter ego of the writer Roberto Bolaño, shared with his creator a significant pa…

  

  Nicolás Lasnibat / France, Chile, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• It Comes By Night

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  When men turn up dead, the old folks whisper of the "aswang"—a shapeshifting beast from folklor…

  

  Alyx Ayn Arumpac / Philippines, France, Norway, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• It Snows at Sidi Bou Said

  Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  My relentless travels between Paris and Tunis provoke as many discussions with my children as q…

  

  Fatma Chérif / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Janitou

  Fall Grant 2015 -

  In Algeria in the mid-1980s, during a period of intense political and social unrest, the Bollyw…

  

  Amine Hattou / Algeria, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Jean Genet, Our Father Of Flowers

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  An anonymous grave in the middle of a cemetery with a view of the sea. We are in Larache, south…

  

  Dalila Ennadre / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Jodari Meno

  Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  Born and raised in Qatar—a small middle eastern country that developed from a fishing village t…

  

  Jamal Al-Khanji, David Ochoa / Qatar, Italy, Zanzibar / Feature Documentary

• Jump the Wall

  Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  A filmmaker has come to Sweden to present his film 'The Healer'. He receives a surprising call…

  

  Mohamed Zineddaine / Morocco, Spain, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Kash Kash

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  My hometown, Beirut, is torn apart by a corrupt political elite, anti-government protests, and…

  

  Lea Najjar / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Khartoum

  Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  Four Sudanese filmmakers mix observational documentary and innovative graphics, archives and an…

  

  Ibrahim Ahmad, Rawia Alhag, Anas Saeed, Timmea Ahmed / Sudan, United Kingdom, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Khmerica

  Fall Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

  Sokha is a Khmer-American. The son of Cambodian refugees, he grew up in the United States. He w…

  

  Antoine GUIDE / France, Cambodia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Language of Fire

  Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  It was night inside of me. Somewhere in the world, my being was torn in two. One was searching…

  

  Tarek Sami / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Last Hillbilly

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  In the Appalachian Mountains, east of Kentucky, people feel less American than Appalachian. The…

  

  Thomas Jenkoe, Diane Bouzgarrou / France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Lebanese Rocket Society

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  When filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige inadvertently discovered that their native…

  

  Khalil Joreige, Joana Hadjithomas / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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