• Whispering Sands

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  A Canadian woman of Arab descent undertakes a trip and hires a guide to help her find a specifi…

  

  Nacer Khemir / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• White Sun

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  When his father dies, anti-regime partisan Chandra must travel to his remote mountain village a…

  

  Deepak Rauniyar / Nepal, United States of America, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Who Do I Belong To

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Aicha lives a quiet, secluded life with her husband and youngest son in a remote village in nor…

  

  Meryam Joobeur / Tunisia, France, Canada, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Why Did the Bluesman Cross the Road?

  Fall Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  At a car dealership in Santa Monica, California, Ernesto and Jamal are hardworking mechanics by…

  

  Meedo Taha / United States of America, Lebanon, Qatar / TV Series

• The Wind Blew On

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  “Perhaps I’m already dead?” says the child, and no one will confirm if this is true or false. H…

  

  Katrín Ólafsdóttir / Iceland, Qatar, Spain, France, Chile / Feature Narrative

• Window

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Baghdad under the American occupation. Iraq is in a power vacuum; anarchy is rife; curfews are…

  

  Koutaiba Al-Janabi / Iraq, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Winter Within

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  In Srinagar, Kashmir, Nargis works as a domestic helper for a middle-class family. Her husband,…

  

  Aamir Bashir / India, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Woman I Never Called Mum

  Fall Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  Because I was born out of wedlock, my birth was kept secret initially. I was raised by my aunt…

  

  Sabrina Idiri Chemloul / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Wooden Rifle

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  During the Syrian revolution, 21-year-old Noor tries to escape with his mother to Europe to liv…

  

  Alfouz Tanjour / Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Wooden Rifle

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  During the Syrian revolution, 21-year-old Noor tries to escape with his mother to Europe to liv…

  

  Alfouz Tanjour / Syria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Wounded Angel

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Four loosely connected stories set in a small town in Kazakhstan at the beginning of the 90s, a…

  

  Emir Baigazin / Kazakhstan, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Writing Hawa

  Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  Filmed over five years, “Writing Hawa” is the story of three generations of Hazara women from t…

  

  Najiba Noori, Rasul Noori / France, Netherlands, Afghanistan, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• X Kids

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  X kids are children born in Algeria out of wedlock, or as a result of terrorist marriages, ince…

  

  Safinez Bousbia / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Yalla, Baba!

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  In 1980, 32-year-old Mansour travelled to Belgium with his friends, bought cars, and set off on…

  

  Angie Obeid / Belgium, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Yasmine/Jasmine

  Spring Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  'Yasmine/Jasmine' is a one-hour limited series centring on Jasmine (24), a first-generation imm…

  

  Yossera Bouchtia / United States of America, Morocco, Qatar / TV Series

• A Year Of Endless Days

  Fall Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

  ‘A Year of Endless Days’ follows two men from a Croatian village—Tomislav and Joso. They are in…

  

  Renata Lucic / Croatia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• You Come from Far Away

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  The role of Arabs in the Spanish Civil War has only been associated with the Moroccan troops wh…

  

  Amal Ramsis / Egypt, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• You Don't Die Two Times

  Fall Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Jenny and Gift, two sisters respectively 22 and 28 years old, are in North Niger, waiting to tr…

  

  Ager Oueslati / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• You Have The Night

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  After losing her job as a hostess aboard a ship, Sanja finds herself stranded, with nowhere to…

  

  Ivan Salatic / Montenegro, Serbia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• You Will Die at Twenty

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  In a Sudanese village, a mother gives birth to Muzamel, a boy cursed by a Dervish prophecy that…

  

  Amjad Abu Alala / Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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