• Merry Christmas, Yiwu

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Communist ideals have long lost their value in Yiwu, a city with 600 Christmas factories, in wh…

  

  Mladen Kovacevic / Serbia, Sweden, Germany, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Miracle of Almería

  Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  At the far end of Europe, on the southern border of Spain, lies Almería. It is a huge province…

  

  Moon Blaisse / Belgium, Switzerland, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• My Little One

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Sarah, a 35-year-old Belgian woman of Moroccan descent, longs to become a mother and start a fa…

  

  Kadija Saidi Leclere / Morocco, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Ozogoche

  Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  The Cuviví is the only bird that inexplicably commits suicide. While most of the migrating huma…

  

  Joe Houlberg Silva / Ecuador, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Papicha

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  Algeria, 1990s—Nedjma is a free-spirited and independent young student. She refuses to allow th…

  

  Mounia Meddour / Algeria, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Quarter to Thursday in Algiers

  Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  Goussam is pregnant, she has to have a clandestine abortion. She is supposed to be helped by he…

  

  Sofia Djama / Algeria, France, Belgium / Feature Narrative

• Queens

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Casablanca, Morocco. A trio of women with the police on their tail embarks on a long escape th…

  

  Yasmine Benkiran / Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• R21 aka RESTORING SOLIDARITY

  Spring Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

  After screening his latest film 'Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory' in Tokyo, the film dir…

  

  Mohanad Yaqubi / Palestine, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Return to Seoul

  Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  On an impulse to reconnect with her origins, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first…

  

  Davy Chou / France, Germany, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Rising up at Night

  Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  Kinshasa, the capital city of 17 million people, is plunged into darkness and insecurity as its…

  

  Nelson Makengo / Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Belgium, Germany, Burkina Faso, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Salaam Plenty

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  'Salaam Plenty' is about the memory and erasure of the presence of Afghan cameleers in Australi…

  

  Samira (Yasmine) Kassari / Morocco, Australia, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Sea Ahead

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  A young woman walks out of the Beirut airport alone and makes her way back home to her parents’…

  

  Ely Dagher / Lebanon, France, Belgium, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Those Who Watch Over

  Fall Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  An immigrant ceases to be a traveller when they decide to be buried in their host land. In the…

  

  Karima Saidi / Belgium, Qatar, France / Feature Documentary

• The Translator

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Having gotten into trouble with the Syrian government, Sami has been living for years as a poli…

  

  Rana Kazkaz, Anas Khalaf / Syria, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Way Home

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  After years of separation, the filmmaker renews her relationship with her mother, Aïcha, who is…

  

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

• Wear & Tear

  Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  Ayda has been an operator at a call centre for several years. She is in her forties and lives b…

  

  Sarra Abidi / Tunisia, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Weldi

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  A Tunisian couple are nearing retirement age, but times are hard, and money is tight. The life…

  

  Mohamed Ben Attia / Tunisia, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Yalla, Baba!

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  In 1980, 32-year-old Mansour travelled to Belgium with his friends, bought cars, and set off on…

  

  Angie Obeid / Belgium, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Zanatany - When Soulless Shrouds Whisper

  Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  Ali, a Comorian widower and father of two teenagers, works in a bookbinding workshop in Majunga…

  

  Hachimiya AHAMADA / Belgium, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

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