• Cutting Through Rocks

  Spring Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

  Cutting Through Rocks is a feature documentary currently in post-production, expected to be rea…

  

  Mohammadreza Eyni, Sara Khaki / Iran, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• The Day Vladimir Died

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  Vladimir, an old Beirut resident, checks the obituaries page and attends funerals daily. Follow…

  

  Fadi Syriani / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Demba

  Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  55-year-old Demba is about to retire after 30 years of service at the city hall in his small to…

  

  Mamadou Dia / Senegal, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Devil's Drivers

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  The southern West Bank with its beautiful landscapes is home to many Palestinian Bedouins. In t…

  

  Daniel Carsenty, Mohammed Abugeth / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Diamond Island

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Diamond Island is a symbol of Cambodia’s future, a sprawling, ultra-modern paradise for the ric…

  

  Davy Chou / Cambodia, France, Germany, Thailand, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Roaming the streets of Beirut searching for metal objects to be recycled, Ahmed, a Syrian refug…

  

  Wissam Charaf / France, Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story

  Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  Madagascar, nowadays. Twenty-year-old Kwame struggles to make a living in the clandestine sapph…

  

  Luck Razanajaona / Madagascar, France, Mauritius, Germany, South Africa, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Do You Love Me

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  ‘Do You Love Me’ is an archive-based documentary that portrays the lived experiences of generat…

  

  Lana Daher / Lebanon, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Dream Away

  Spring Grant 2014 - Development Stage

  Representing freedom and easy cash, Sharm El Sheikh has long been a dream destination for Egypt…

  

  Marouan Omara, Johanna Domke / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Dream Betrayed Me

  Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  Qamichli, Syria, 2004. Mesto, a 17-year-old boy, has but one dream—to join his city's football…

  

  Mohammad Alchikho "Shaikhow" / Syria, France, Belgium, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Déserts

  Fall Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  Set in the vast, unforgiving landscapes of southern Morocco, ‘Déserts’ tells the tale of two pe…

  

  Faouzi Bensaïdi / Morocco, France, Germany, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• The Exam

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  Rojin is about to sit her university entrance exam. If she fails, her father will force her to…

  

  Shawkat Amin Korki / Iraq, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Fidaï

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  During the war in Algeria, El Hadi, the great uncle of filmmaker Damien Ounouri joined his sist…

  

  Damien Ounouri / Algeria, France, China, Germany, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Fin

  Spring Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

  In a reunified Korea, scarred by an ecological disaster, oppressed Omegas with their fish-like…

  

  Syeyoung Park / Korea (South), Germany, Qatar / Feature 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

• From My Syrian Room

  Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  How can one operate as a free, creative person when one has been channelled to remain a good ci…

  

  Hazem Alhamwi / Syria, Lebanon, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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