• 3000 Nights

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Falsely accused of being involved in terrorist activity, Layal is arrested, interrogated and in…

  

  Mai Masri / Palestine, France, Jordan, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim

  Fall Grant 2012 -

  Ali loves a goat called Nada. Ibrahim, a depressed sound engineer who hears voices he cannot de…

  

  Sherif El Bendary / Egypt, United Arab Emirates, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Beretta

  Fall Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  Suad, a mute Egyptian woman, is constantly harassed by the old men of Cairo and one day decides…

  

  Sophia Al-Maria / Qatar, Egypt, United Arab Emirates / Feature Narrative

• Blessed Benefit

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Ahmad, a construction worker, gets tangled up in an unfortunate business deal that lands him in…

  

  Mahmoud Al Massad / Jordan, Netherlands, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Boss

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Five boys from a small village lose their football field and swimming pool to the Tigers, a gan…

  

  Rzgar Huseein Ahmed / Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Cactus Flower

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Aida, a struggling actress, came to Cairo from the Delta as a university student; like many oth…

  

  Hala Elkoussy / Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Champ of the Camp

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Hailed by critics world-wide for its entertaining yet sympathetic look at the labour issue in t…

  

  Mahmoud Kaabour / United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Don't Get Too Comfortable

  Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  When Shaima Al-Tamimi’s paternal grandfather migrated from Yemen to Zanzibar half a century ago…

  

  Shaima Al Tamimi / Yemen, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Netherlands, Qatar / Short Experimental

• Grandma, a Thousand Times

  Fall Grant 2010 - Post-Production Stage

  'Grandma, a Thousand Times’ puts a feisty Beiruti grandmother at the centre of brave film exerc…

  

  Mahmoud Kaabour / Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• Hedi

  Fall Grant 2013 -

  Hedi is a simple young man. He is not very talkative or reactive and does not expect much from…

  

  Mohamed Ben Attia / Tunisia, Belgium, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Horseed

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Basketball, one of the oldest and most popular games among Somali women, is now an endangered s…

  

  Hana Mire / Somalia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Sweden, Congo, Republic of, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Joint Possession

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Tangier topography is in turmoil. Pharaonic real estate projects surround the Mansouria, a land…

  

  Leila Kilani / Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Last of Us

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  N crosses the desert to North Africa, intending to obtain illegal passage to Europe. After he i…

  

  Ala Eddine Slim / Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Line of Sight

  Spring Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  The film opens with a single shot showing a confrontation between Laila and Sami. Laila, a 22-y…

  

  Aseel Mansour / Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• L’mina

  Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  The film is set in Jerada, a former mining town in northeast Morocco that experienced its golde…

  

  Randa Maroufi / France, Morocco, Italy, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• Musk

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  After giving up a promising career in museum management to attend to his ailing father, Ahmed s…

  

  Humaid Alsuwaidi / United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Our River...Our Sky

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production, Post-Production Stage

  Baghdad, 2006. All over the city, people of different religions are being forced out of their h…

  

  Maysoon Pachachi / United Kingdom, France, Germany, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Out Of My Mind

  Fall Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  Mo is a Somali writer who grew up and still lives in Dubai. One day, Mo wakes up to find the el…

  

  Mo Yusuf / Qatar, Somalia, Djibouti, United Arab Emirates / TV Series

• Roshmia

  Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Since 1956, when he became a refugee from downtown Haifa’s Wadi Alsaleeb neighbourhood, 80-year…

  

  Salim Abu Jabal / Palestine, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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