• East of Noon

  Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  In the ruins of an industrial complex outside time, Shawky (70), an eccentric showman, rules wi…

  

  Hala Elkoussy / Netherlands, Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Egypt's Modern Pharaohs

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  On January 25, 1952, downtown Cairo was burnt down: angry mobs demanded the departure of Britis…

  

  Jihan El Tahri / Egypt, France, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Egyptian Jeanne d'Arc

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  ‘Egyptian Jeanne d’Arc’ is a creative documentary that explores issues of female emancipation i…

  

  Iman Kamel / Kuwait, Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• El Bastardiya (Once Upon A Time In Tripoli)

  Fall Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  Murad, a young jobless engineer, works instead as a salesman. His father, a truck driver for an…

  

  Abdullah Al-Ghaly / Libya, Egypt, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Experimental Summer

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Both Mahmoud and Zeinab join in the search for the original version of an Egyptian film that wa…

  

  Mahmoud Lotfy / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• The Fifth Resurrection of Farid

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. An old man comes across an odd collection of film reels, vinyl recor…

  

  Khalid Youssef / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Fly Me to the Moon

  Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  As the wedding ceremony approaches, all that remains is to complete the final step——obtaining t…

  

  zakaria nouri / Morocco, Egypt, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• From Abdul To Leila

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  After an accident that causes her to lose her memory and several years of exile, a young Franco…

  

  Leila Albayaty / Belgium, Germany, Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Halaa'

  Spring Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  An anthology series of Middle Eastern crime stories exploring the complex moral ironies surroun…

  

  Amal Al-Muftah / Lebanon, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Qatar / TV Series

• Hamlet From the Slums

  Fall Grants 2021 - Production Stage

  Ahmed, an 18-year-old from a slum in Cairo, buries his father—the king of horse-driven carriage…

  

  Ahmed Fawzi Saleh / Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Hawi

  Fall Grant 2010 - Post-Production Stage

  Shot in Alexandria using non-professional actors and a volunteer crew, Ibrahim El Batout's thir…

  

  Ibrahim El Batout / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Homemade Stories

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production, Production, Production Stage

  Nidal, a Syrian filmmaker, must leave his home city of Damascus. He locks his door behind him a…

  

  Nidal Al Dibs / Egypt, Qatar, Syria / Feature Documentary

• Housekeeping

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Farida, a strong-willed Egyptian woman in her 50s, is a cleaning lady who works and lives in an…

  

  Mazen Khaled / Lebanon, Egypt, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• How The Sea Became Salty

  Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  Yara is abandoning her life and leaving Egypt for good. She refuses her friend's Amr offer to d…

  

  Maysoon El-Massry / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• I Am Afraid To Forget Your Face

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  After being separated for 2 months, Adam travels down a rough road to be reunited, whatever it…

  

  Sameh Morsy / Egypt, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• I Can Hear Your Voice... Still

  Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  One night in a small seaside town in Egypt the sound of a whale keeps coming from the sea but n…

  

  Sameh Alaa / Egypt / Feature Narrative

• 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 Promise You Paradise

  Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  Following a violent incident; Eissa a 17 years old illegal African migrant in Egypt is in a que…

  

  Morad Mostafa / Egypt, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• IALU: The Field of Dreams

  Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  Living in Phantasma, one can barely see outside beyond its massive walls. Gates seem empty, wit…

  

  Mostafa Youssef / Egypt, Qatar / Short Narrative

• 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

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