• '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

• 1976

  Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house to supervise its renovation. Her husband, chil…

  

  Manuela Martelli / Chile, Argentina, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 1982

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  A DFI Inclusive Screening Working in partnership with the Translation and Interpre…

  

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

• 19B

  Fall Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  An abandoned villa, deserted by its owners since the 60s, is only inhabited by its guard, who r…

  

  Ahmad Abdalla / Egypt, 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

  An aspiring video journalist in her 20s finds herself already facing self-reckoning. Born in Da…

  

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

• The 67th Summer

  Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  In 1967 Ali Ragheb, a young man from Cairo, receives a letter from an Austrian girl named Liz—a…

  

  Abu Bakr Shawky / France, Egypt, Austria, Germany / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Abu Fanoos

  Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  Nineteen-year-old Khaled drives up to a small, isolated farm in 1980s Qatar where his reclusive…

  

  Horia El Hadad, Amira Abujbara / Qatar, Morocco / Short 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

• After the Bridge

  Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  Valeria Collina, an Italian woman who converted to Islam, returned to live in Italy in the summ…

  

  Davide Rizzo, Marzia Toscano / Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Aisha Can’t Fly Away Anymore

  Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  Aisha, a 26-year-old Somali woman, works as a caregiver for elderly patients. She lives in a ne…

  

  Morad Mostafa / Egypt, France, Tunisia, 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

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