• 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

• 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

• Abo Zaabal 1989

  Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  In 1989, Mahmoud Mortada, Bassams father, was arrested, imprisoned and tortured at the infamous…

  

  Bassam Mortada / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• Amparo

  Spring Grants 2020 -

  After a long night’s shift, Amparo, a single mother of two, returns home to find her children a…

  

  Simon Mesa Soto / Colombia, Sweden, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• An Unusual Summer

  Fall Grants 2019 -

  My father installed a surveillance camera and recorded the scenes in front of the house, contin…

  

  Kamal Aljafari / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• 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

• The Arabic Interpreter

  Spring Grants 2018 -

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

  

  Ali Kareem Obaid / Iraq, Italy, Germany, 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

• 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

• Big Boys Don't Cry

  Spring Grants 2020 - Development Stage

  Yehia, a 35-year-old bodyguard, embodies a hyper-masculine image of power and violence. After h…

  

  Muhammad Mustapha / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Bird's Placebo

  Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  After his legs are amputated while trying to cross the Mediterranean, Yahya, a young Tunisian m…

  

  Rami Jarboui / Tunisia, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Blessed Benefit

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Ahmad, a construction worker, gets tangled up in an unfortunate business deal that lands him in…

  

  Mahmoud Al Massad / Jordan, Netherlands, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• City of Wind

  Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  Ze is a timid 17-year-old shaman. He studies hard at school to succeed in the cold, callous soc…

  

  Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir / France, Mongolia, Portugal, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Cocote

  Fall Grants 2016 -

  Alberto, a gardener who works in the city, travels to his hometown to attend the funeral of his…

  

  Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias / Dominican Republic, Argentina, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Cotton Queen

  Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, 15-year-old Nafisa lives a simple life, picking cotton wi…

  

  Suzannah Mirghani / Palestine, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Dam

  Fall Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

  World-renowned visual artist Ali Cherri's feature debut, 'The Dam', is an allegorical tale set…

  

  Ali Cherri / France, Sudan, Lebanon, Germany, Serbia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Dam

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Sudan, near the Merowe Dam. Maher works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nil…

  

  Ali Cherri / France, Sudan, Lebanon, Germany, Serbia, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• The Dark Wind

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Reko and Pero, a young Yazidi couple, prepare for family life in their village Boza. Suddenly,…

  

  Hussein Hassan / Iraq, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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