• 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

• Sleepless nights

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Two people irrevocably changed by war come together in ‘Confession and Struggle,’ an unflinchin…

  

  Eliane Raheb / Lebanon, France, United Arab Emirates, Palestine, 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

• Terra Firma

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  In a small commercial harbour in the south of France, two Moroccan sailors are watching over fe…

  

  Laurent Aït Benalla / Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Theeb

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Arabia, 1916. Theeb [Wolf] lives with his Bedouin tribe in a forgotten corner of the Ottoman Em…

  

  Naji Abu Nowar / Jordan, United Kingdom, Qatar, United Arab Emirates / Feature Narrative

• Tramontane

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Young Rabih is well-liked by family, friends and the community of the Lebanese village he calls…

  

  Vatche Boulghourjian / Lebanon, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Under the Hat

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  ‘Under the Hat’ tells the story of Sheikh Abdul Kareem, an Egyptian mosque prayer caller on the…

  

  Amal Al-Agroobi / United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Valley

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Following a car accident on a lone mountain road, a middle-aged man loses his memory. Drenched…

  

  Ghassan Salhab / Lebanon, France, Germany, Qatar, United Arab Emirates / Feature Narrative

• Wajib

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  Shadi returns to his hometown to help his father hand-deliver his sister’s wedding invitations.…

  

  Annemarie Jacir / Palestine, France, Colombia, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Norway / Feature Narrative

• Walls and People

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  This film is a cry from the heart of the Medina of Casablanca for its inhabitants and their mem…

  

  Dalila Ennadre / Morocco, Algeria, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• We Have Never Been Kids

  Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Since 2003, Mahmood Soliman has tracked the subjects of his​ ​2003 documentary ‘Living Among Us…

  

  Mahmood Soliman / Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Zaineb Hates the Snow

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  2009. Tunisian Nine-year-old Zaineb lost her father. Her mother will rebuild her life with a ma…

  

  Kaouther Ben Hania / Tunisia, France, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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