• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Amal

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  Amal, an angry teenager, comes of age in a post-revolution Egypt that is undergoing tremendous…

  

  Mohamed Siam / Egypt, Lebanon, France, Germany, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Animalia

  Fall Grants 2021 - Production Stage

  Itto, a young woman from a modest rural background, is slowly adapting to the Moroccan upper-mi…

  

  Sofia Alaoui / France, Morocco / Feature Narrative

• Apprentice

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Aiman, a 28-year-old Malay correctional officer, lives with his older sister Suhaila in a modes…

  

  Junfeng Boo / Singapore, Germany, France, Hong Kong, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• As I Want

  Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  Cairo, January 25, 2013, the second anniversary of the revolution, under then-president Mohamed…

  

  Samaher Alqadi / Palestine, Norway, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Ashkal

  Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  In the gardens of Carthage, a new district where modern buildings are juxtaposed with abandoned…

  

  Youssef Chebbi / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Atlantide

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  In Venice between the gondolas, canals and palaces, tourists pour in as residents head out. Loc…

  

  Yuri Ancarani / Italy, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Autobiography

  Fall Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

  When his father is imprisoned, and his brother migrates, Rakib (18) is left alone to housekeep…

  

  Makbul Mubarak / Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Poland, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Aya

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Seven-year-old Aya lives in an inner-city neighbourhood of Marseille. Intelligent and obsessed…

  

  Moufida Fedhila / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Bastardo

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  ‘Bastardo’ is the story of Mohsen, ‘the bastard’, whose origins and history are unknown. He was…

  

  Nejib Belkadhi / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Beauty and the Dogs

  Fall Grants 2016 -

  During a student party, Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, meets the mysterious Youssef and leaves…

  

  Kaouther Ben Hania / Tunisia, France, Sweden, Norway, Lebanon, Qatar, Switzerland / Feature Narrative

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