• I Dreamt of Empire

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Cairo, 1980. Musa, a brilliant Egyptian professor, cannot move past the grief of losing his onl…

  

  Kasem Kharsa / Egypt, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• I Have Been Watching You All Along

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  A young woman wanders about an abandoned cinema, rummaging through its storerooms and curiously…

  

  Rawda Al-Thani / Qatar / Short Narrative

• I Used to Sleep on the Rooftop

  Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Nuhad, a 53-year-old Syrian woman, had never left Syria until the war made her reconsider her e…

  

  Angie Obeid / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• IZRIQAQ

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  In a land dotted with killing machines, Yassine finds an easy cover-up for his crime. But even…

  

  Rama Mari / Palestine, Norway, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Ibrahim

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

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

  

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

• The Idea of a Lake

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Inés, a 35 year-old photographer, is expecting a child and is in an emotionally vulnerable stat…

  

  Milagros Mumenthaler / Switzerland, Argentina, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• In Vitro

  Fall Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  In a converted nuclear reactor, 70-year-old Dunia, the dying founder of a hi-tech orchard, pass…

  

  Larissa Sansour / Palestine, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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 Future, They Ate from the Finest Porcelain

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  ‘In the Future, They Ate from the Finest Porcelain’ resides in the cross-section of sci-fi, arc…

  

  Larissa Sansour / Palestine, United Kingdom, Denmark, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• 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

• Inside Me

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  A young Egyptian girl living with a conservative group that follows communal acts and practices…

  

  Halla Tarek / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Insomnia of a Serial Dreamer

  Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Facing his insomniac nature, the author of this film meets with several people, asking each one…

  

  Mohamad Soueid / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Interpret

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  After living a relatively normal life as a student studying in Berlin, Hassan reluctantly accep…

  

  Ali Kareem Obaid / Iraq, Italy, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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 - Post-Production Stage

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

  

  Nicolás Lasnibat / France, Chile, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Ismail

  Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  In 1949, Ismail, a young Palestinian, struggles to support his family after their expulsion to…

  

  Nora Alsharif / Jordan, Palestine, United Kingdom, Qatar / Short Narrative

• It’s Far Away Where I Must Go

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  At the age of 70, my mother Aicha lost the notion of time and space. Forced to live in a nursin…

  

  Karima Saidi / Morocco, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

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