• Halaa'

  Spring Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  An anthology series of Middle Eastern crime stories exploring the complex moral ironies surroun…

  

  Amal Al-Muftah / Lebanon, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Qatar / TV Series

• Hamlet From the Slums

  Fall Grants 2021 - Production Stage

  Ahmed, an 18-year-old from a slum in Cairo, buries his father—the king of horse-driven carriage…

  

  Ahmed Fawzi Saleh / Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Handala, the Boy Without a Face

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Handala, the Palestinian refugee child, appeared in thousands of political caricatures to shed…

  

  Mahmoud Kaabour / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Harka

  Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  Tunisia, North Africa. Ali, a young man in his twenties, makes a precarious living selling cont…

  

  Lotfy Nathan / France, Tunisia, Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, United States of America, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Heim

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  ‘Heim’ takes place in a refugee centre in Berlin-Tempelhof airport, which though technically ou…

  

  Liwaa Yazaji, Mohammad Abou Laban / Lebanon, Qatar / TV Series

• Her Mother's Daughter

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Tamara, sexy and sparkling, is a professor of biology at the American University of Beirut. She…

  

  Dima El-Horr / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Home Sweet Home

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  The filmmaker’s father spent 40 years as the director of a secular school he founded in Beirut’…

  

  Nadine Naous / France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Housekeeping

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Farida, a strong-willed Egyptian woman in her 50s, is a cleaning lady who works and lives in an…

  

  Mazen Khaled / Lebanon, Egypt, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• How My Grandmother Became A Chair

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  The heartless sea is relentlessly approaching poor grandmother’s house. By losing her five sens…

  

  Nicolas Fattouh / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• I Am Here But You Can't See Me

  Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  In the fictitious city of Beirut lives Viola, a musician and the leader of an underground movem…

  

  Feyrouz Serhal / Lebanon, Spain, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• I Used to Sleep on the Rooftop

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Nuhad, a 53-year-old Syrian woman, had never left Syria until the war made her reconsider her e…

  

  Angie Obeid / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• I, Hummus

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  When I landed in Canada in 2006, I became recognized as a giant walking plate of hummus. Being…

  

  Rawane Nassif / Lebanon, Canada, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Ibrahim, a Fate to Define

  Fall Grant 2015 -

  Ibrahim Alabed, my father, was a secret member of the Revolutionary Council, a Palestinian mili…

  

  Lina Alabed / Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• In A Dream You Saw a Way to Survive and You Were Full of Joy

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Layal, 21, returns home one night after a sexual encounter and joins her mother Salma, who is u…

  

  Remi Itani / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• In this Land Lay Graves of Mine

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production/Post-Production Stage

  In 2009, I sold my land in my village in South Lebanon to a Muslim, stirring a sectarian discou…

  

  Reine Mitri / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Insomnia of a Serial Dreamer

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Facing his insomniac nature, the author of this film meets with several people, asking each one…

  

  Mohamad Soueid / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Kash Kash

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  My hometown, Beirut, is torn apart by a corrupt political elite, anti-government protests, and…

  

  Lea Najjar / Lebanon, 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

• Ladder to Damascus

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Ghalia moves to Damascus to study acting and rents a room in a traditional courtyard house, whe…

  

  Mohamad Malas / Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Land Was Well Past its Zenith

  Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  The film is a short experimental essay that wanders the streets of Beirut in 2024, five years a…

  

  Rita Mahfouz / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

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