• Khartoum

  Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  Four Sudanese filmmakers mix observational documentary and innovative graphics, archives and an…

  

  Ibrahim Ahmad, Rawia Alhag, Anas Saeed, Timmea Ahmed / Sudan, United Kingdom, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• LABAN: The False Prophets of Johann Sebastian Bach

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  The French take Lebanon over from the Ottoman Empire and decide to flood a village in order to…

  

  Daniel Joseph / Lebanon, France, Georgia, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Lamb

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  As ‘Lamb’ opens, nine-year-old Ephraïm (an affecting As ‘Lamb’ opens, nine-year-old Ephraïm (an…

  

  Yared Zeleke / France, Ethiopia, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Les Enfants Terribles

  Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  In Keskincik, a village situated near the Syrian border of Turkey, a young man, Mahmut wishes t…

  

  Ahmet Necdet Cupur / France, Germany, Turkey, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Madmen's Fort

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  In 1860, the Algerian Sahara is coveted by the colonial powers of the time, who dream of it as…

  

  Narimane Mari / Algeria, France, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Mediterranea

  Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  As ‘Mediterranea’ opens in Algeria, Ayiva and his friend Abas climb onto a truck packed to burs…

  

  Jonas Carpignano / Italy, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Mediterranean Fever

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Winner of the best screenplay award in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section last year, the darkly…

  

  Maha Haj / Palestine, France, Germany, Qatar, Cyprus / Feature Narrative

• Memories on Stone

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  ‘You have to be crazy to make a film in Kurdistan.’ So says one of the characters in Shawkat Am…

  

  Shawkat Amin Korki / Germany, Qatar, Iraqi Kurdistan Region / Feature Narrative

• Memory Hotel

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Germany, 1945. World War II is nearing its climactic end. Five-year-old Sophie and her parents…

  

  Heinrich Sabl / Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Midwives

  Fall Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

  Hla and Nyo Nyo live in a country torn by conflict. Hla is a Buddhist and the owner of a makesh…

  

  Hnin Ei Hlaing / Myanmar, Germany, Canada / Feature Documentary

• Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You

  Fall Grants 2018 -

  The wastelands and crowded streets of an African country are traversed by a woman bearing a woo…

  

  Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese / Lesotho, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Mustang

  Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  A village by the Black Sea, far from Istanbul. When they play a game in which they sit on boys’…

  

  Deniz Gamze Ergüven / Turkey, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• My Love Awaits Me by the Sea

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  ‘My Love Awaits Me by the Sea’ is a poetic documentary that narrates the story of its director,…

  

  Mais Darwazah / Jordan, Palestine, Qatar, Germany / Feature Documentary

• My Uncle the "Terrorist"

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  When I was a child, there was a portrait of a man in our house. I never knew who he was; nobody…

  

  Elias Moubarak / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• NARDJES A.

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  March 8th, 2019, International Women’s Day and the third consecutive Friday that the city of Al…

  

  Karim Aïnouz / France, Algeria, Germany, Brazil, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Niemeyer 4 Ever

  Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  Beyond the ambient chaos of the city of Tripoli, in northern Lebanon, and the crisis that the c…

  

  Aurelia Makdessi / Lebanon, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Night

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  While searching for sleepless souls, a storyteller finds a woman standing in front of her door,…

  

  Ahmad Saleh / Palestine, Jordan, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Noche De Fuego

  Fall Grants 2019 -

  In a mountain town, where corn and poppies grow, the girls sport boyish haircuts and have hidin…

  

  Tatiana Huezo / Mexico, Germany, Brazil, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Notes on Displacement

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  The news is full of images of overcrowded boats and vast tent camps. But how much do we really…

  

  Khaled Jarrar / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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