• Plot 35

  Fall Grants 2016 -

  Plot 35 is a place that was never mentioned in my family; it is where my elder sister, who died…

  

  Eric Caravaca / France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Poster

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  A poster appears on the walls of the Palestinian village of Reith, accusing the local women of…

  

  Suha Arraf / Palestine, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Republic of Silence

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  They grew up in the lands of dictators and surveillance, where images are censored, photos are…

  

  Diana El Jeiroudi / Syria, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Rest In Piece

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Amidst a cacophony of shelling, Midyan is forced to flee his war-torn home. Packing only a suit…

  

  Antoine Antabi / Germany, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Return

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Taysir, a historian in his fifties, has settled in the French city of Marseille with his wife M…

  

  Meyar Al-Roumi / France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Return to Seoul

  Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  On an impulse to reconnect with her origins, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first…

  

  Davy Chou / France, Germany, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Rey

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  In 1860, a 35-year-old Frenchman explores Araucania, an autonomous region of southern Chile. Th…

  

  Niles Atallah / Chile, France, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Rising up at Night

  Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  Kinshasa, the capital city of 17 million people, is plunged into darkness and insecurity as its…

  

  Nelson Makengo / Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Belgium, Germany, Burkina Faso, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Road to La Paz

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Thirty-five-year-old Sebastián’s greatest passions are his old Peugeot 505 and the prog-rock ba…

  

  Francisco Varone / Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Selma

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  After the accidental death of her taxi-driver husband, Selma decides to become master of her ow…

  

  Mohamed Ben Attia / Tunisia, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Shadow of a Man

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Ahmad, 26, is the best mechanic in the mountains of Lebanon. The only car he hasn’t had time an…

  

  Niam Itani / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Ship Of Fools

  Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  She didn’t even know they were bombs. When her father could no longer pretend they were falling…

  

  Alia Haju / Germany, Lebanon, Qatar / Short Documentary

• Sivas

  Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Set in a bleak Anatolian village, ‘Sivas’ tells the story of 11-year-old Aslan and Sivas, a wea…

  

  Kaan Müjdeci / Turkey, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Stranger

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production, Production, Production Stage

  After spending unfruitful years studying medicine in the former Soviet Union, Adnan decided to…

  

  Ameer Fakher Eldin / Syria, Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Talking About Trees

  Fall Grants 2018 -

  Ibrahim, Suleiman, Manar and Altayeb are founding members of the ‘Sudanese Film Group’. Friends…

  

  Suhaib Gasmelbari / France, Sudan, Germany, Chad, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Taste of Cement

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  The Lebanese Civil War ended nearly a generation ago, but it remains far from forgotten, stampe…

  

  Ziad Kalthom / Syria, Lebanon, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Temporarily

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Reham is a 24-year-old Syrian girl who studied acting in Syria. Because of the war there, she m…

  

  Reham Alkassar / Germany, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Thank You for Banking with Us!

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  The father of the poor and bickering sisters Mariam and Noura dies and unexpectedly leaves a la…

  

  Laila Abbas / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• This Haunting Memory That Is Not My Own

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  A family finds itself violently ripped apart from their native home and thrown into the sea, in…

  

  Panos Aprahamian / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• This Rain Will Never Stop

  Fall Grants 2019 -

  ‘This Rain Will Never Stop’ takes audiences on a powerful, visually arresting journey through h…

  

  Alina Gorlova / Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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