• Miles to Go Before She Sleeps

  Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  Yang Ai Yun is a retired schoolteacher and animal sanctuary founder, who for over twenty years…

  

  Mijie Li / China, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Mornings in Jenin

  Fall Grants 2020 - Development Stage

  Philadelphia 2001. Amal lives an unremarkable life with her daughter, Sara, but mother and daug…

  

  Annemarie Jacir / Palestine, United States of America, United Kingdom, Qatar / TV Series

• One Week Ago, Today

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Off the coast of a small fishing town in the south of Lebanon, a man in his 40s is found uncons…

  

  Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia / Lebanon, United States of America, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The President's Cake

  Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  It’s April 26, 1991. Today is “draw day,” which means that schools across Iraq will select stud…

  

  Hasan Hadi / Iraq, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The President's Visit

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  In a small fishing town, Nino sells soap at his Sultan of Soap shop. When he received a highly…

  

  Cyril Aris / Lebanon, United States of America, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Qatar Stars

  Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  'Qatar Stars' is the first feature documentary focused on girls in Qatar. It follows “The Olymp…

  

  Danielle Beverly / Qatar, United States of America / Feature Documentary

• A Reverence for Spiders

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  New York-based imam Omar Metwally develops an unlikely friendship with the homeless teenager wh…

  

  Faiza Ambah / Saudi Arabia, United States of America, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Scenes from a Revolt Sustained

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Examining the culture and history of Tunisia and how it has been mediated or ignored by the Wes…

  

  Kays Mejri, Matt Peterson / France, Tunisia, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Screwdriver

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Young Ziad is the star of the Jalazon Refugee Camp basketball team in Palestine. When his best…

  

  Bassam Jarbawi / Palestine, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Sea Ahead

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  A young woman walks out of the Beirut airport alone and makes her way back home to her parents’…

  

  Ely Dagher / Lebanon, France, Belgium, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Shambhala

  Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  In the heart of Nepalese Himalayas, Pema, a spirited woman, embraces a polyandrous marriage wit…

  

  Min Bahadur Bham / Nepal, France, Norway, Hong Kong, Turkey, Taiwan, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Speed Sisters

  Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Meet Marah, Mona, Betty, Noor and Maysoon – the first all-woman rally-racing team in the Middle…

  

  Amber Fares / Palestine, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Taste of Apples Is Red

  Fall Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  In the wake of fierce battles of the Syrian Civil War, old Mustafa crosses the border, and retu…

  

  Ehab Tarabieh / Syria, United States of America, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Tell it to Bridges

  Spring Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  It always started with a question about destination, and often times the answer had been indeci…

  

  Ali Hammoud / United States of America, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• The Dragon Blood Island

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  ‘The Dragon Blood Island’ is a short documentary that focuses on the beauty of what has been de…

  

  Sufian Abulohom / Yemen, United States of America, Qatar / Short Documentary

• The Monk and the Gun

  Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  Kingdom of Bhutan, 2006. Modernisation has finally arrived. Bhutan became the last country in t…

  

  Pawo Choyning Dorji / Bhutan, Taiwan, United States of America, France, Qatar / Unknown

• The Names Of The Flowers

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  As Bolivia stages the 50th anniversary of the death of “great Che Guevara”, Julia an old countr…

  

  Bahman Tavoosi / Canada, United States of America, Bolivia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• They

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Fourteen-year-old J goes by the pronoun ‘They” and lives with their parents in the suburbs of C…

  

  Anahita Ghazvinizadeh / Iran, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• This Is Congo

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  'This Is Congo’ is an unblinking, unfiltered look into one of the world’s longest-standing ongo…

  

  Daniel McCabe / United States of America, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Canada, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Trophy

  Fall Grants 2016 -

  ‘Trophy’ takes an in-depth look at the multi-billion dollar industry behind big-game hunting, a…

  

  Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz / United States of America, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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