• Bombay Rose

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Bollywood is a cult in India. What is it that makes millions of people believe in it so strongl…

  

  Gitanjali Rao / India, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• By the Time It Gets Dark

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  By the Time It Gets Dark’ tells the interwoven stories of several characters: a film director a…

  

  Anocha Suwichakornpong / Thailand, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Even Donkeys Have Remorse

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Inside a crumbling old house, Omar spends his days terrified of the outside, while Reem is pass…

  

  Shirin Abu Shaqra / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Foreign Son

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Answering the call of his homeland, of which he retains only childhood memories, 50-year-old Om…

  

  Abdallah Badis / France, Qatar, Algeria / Feature Documentary

• 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

• In the Future, They Ate from the Finest Porcelain

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  ‘In the Future, They Ate from the Finest Porcelain’ resides in the cross-section of sci-fi, arc…

  

  Larissa Sansour / Palestine, United Kingdom, Denmark, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• Inside Me

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  A young Egyptian girl living with a conservative group that follows communal acts and practices…

  

  Halla Tarek / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Key

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Fathi Moftah, a child refugee, is obsessed with collecting keys. One day, while he is working a…

  

  Ghassan Jaradat / Jordan, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Language

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Used to reading and printing Braille, a blind man in Baghdad becomes a giant and finds he can “…

  

  Mortada Gzar / Iraq, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Liyana

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Liyana is a young, fictional girl created by several young orphans in Swaziland, where the scou…

  

  Aaron Kopp, Amanda Kopp / Swaziland, Qatar, United States of America / Feature Documentary

• Memory Hotel

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Germany, 1945. World War II is nearing its climactic end. Five-year-old Sophie and her parents…

  

  Heinrich Sabl / Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Miss Camel

  Fall Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  Melwah, a teenage camel, lives under the strict supervision of her father, and hangs out with h…

  

  Haifaa Al Mansour / Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Most Pretty Dudes

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  ‘The Most Pretty Dudes’ is based on an audio recording of negotiations between two groups, one…

  

  Mohammad Dibo / Syria, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• Multicoloured Bahtan

  Fall Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  Emotionless Bahtan meets hyperactive Felfella and together they discover the secrets behind Bah…

  

  Nermeen Salem / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Mute

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  In 1960s Qatar, Mama Looloo lives alone as she builds a spaceship in the middle of her living r…

  

  Thamer Al-Thani / Qatar / Short Narrative

• My Friend Gadhgadhi

  Fall Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  A few days after the assassination of left-wing Tunisian militant Chokri Belaïd in early 2013,…

  

  Rafik Omrani / Tunisia, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Night

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  While searching for sleepless souls, a storyteller finds a woman standing in front of her door,…

  

  Ahmad Saleh / Palestine, Jordan, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Queen of the Hoggar (working title)

  Spring Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  Kella, a young princess, and her elder sister are forced to leave their home because of war. Th…

  

  Mohannad Ahmed Muhammad Alamin / Libya, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Rest In Piece

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Shelling forces the 40-year-old Midyan to flee his homeland. He takes with him only his dearest…

  

  Antoine Antabi / Syria, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Search for the Star Pearl

  Fall Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  Ali ibn Hamad, a brave, 17-year-old Qatari boy, sails the unknown seas with his friends, the fu…

  

  Hafiz Ali Ali / Qatar / Feature Narrative

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