• '81

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  When tasked by officials to pursue entry into the 1981 FIFA Youth World Championships in Austra…

  

  Dawood Al-Anwari, Ali Al Anssari / Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 143 Sahara Street

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Malika lives alone in the middle of the desert. There she runs a small restaurant serving two d…

  

  Hassen Ferhani / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 143 Sahara Street

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  In her little restaurant in the middle of the Algerian desert, a woman writes her history. Ther…

  

  Hassen Ferhani / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 1982

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  As the academic year draws to a close at a school high in the mountains of Lebanon, eleven-ye…

  

  Oualid Mouaness / Lebanon, United States of America, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 2 Rooms and a Parlor

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Khalil Suleiman has always preferred to stay away from other people, but after his wife’s death…

  

  Sherif El Bendary / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 200 Meters

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Mustafa and his wife Salwa come from two Palestinian villages that are only 200 meters apart, b…

  

  Ameen Nayfeh / Palestine, Jordan, France, Germany, Italy, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 3000 Nights

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Falsely accused of being involved in terrorist activity, Layal is arrested, interrogated and in…

  

  Mai Masri / Palestine, France, Jordan, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 5 Seasons of Revolution

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Lina’s plan was simple. She wanted to become a camerawoman. She liked filming details of life a…

  

  LINA / Syria, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 7 KM - Seven Kilometers

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  1992, somewhere in Algeria. Omar and Othman, two boys from the same poor village, walk the seve…

  

  Oussama Benhassine / Algeria, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Abandon

  Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  A VR 360° short that tells the story of Khalil and Zalfa, a middle-aged couple, and how they sp…

  

  Farah Shaer / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• Abou Leila

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  Algeria, 1994. Terrorist attacks have ravaged the north of the country for the past two years.…

  

  Amin Sidi-Boumédiène / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Adam

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-ye…

  

  Maryam Touzani / Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• After a Revolution

  Spring Grants 2019 -

  Filmed over six years, ‘After A Revolution’ is the challenging story of a brother and sister st…

  

  Giovanni Buccomino / Italy, United Kingdom, Libya, United States of America, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Al Baseer – The Blind Ferryman

  Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  The blind ferryman Ayoub lives in the southern Iraqi marshes. He knows how to find his way arou…

  

  Ali Al-Fatlawi / Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Al Zubara

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Taking place in Qatar 150 years into the future, Jassim Mohammed, driven by revenge since the a…

  

  Hamad Al Mansouri / Qatar / TV Series

• Al-Sit

  Fall Grants 2018 -

  In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, 15-year-old Nafisa has a crush on Babiker, but her parent…

  

  Suzannah Mirghani / Sudan, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Alam, The Flag

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Palestinian student Tamer doesn’t meddle in politics; at the same time, the memory of his uncle…

  

  Firas Khoury / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Algiers by Night

  Spring Grant 2012 -

  The sun sets over the Bay of Algiers. The city walls start to lose their shiny white, making ro…

  

  Yanis Koussim / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim

  Fall Grant 2012 -

  Ali loves a goat called Nada. Ibrahim, a depressed sound engineer who hears voices he cannot de…

  

  Sherif El Bendary / Egypt, United Arab Emirates, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• All That Passes By Through A Window That Doesn't Open

  Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Amid the attempt to revive a ‘new Silk Road’ between Europe and Asia, Azerbaijani men labour to…

  

  Martin DiCicco / United States of America, Georgia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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