• 1982

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Summer, 1982. Wissam, an 11-year-old boy, is determined to tell Joanna, a girl in his class, th…

  

  Oualid Mouaness / Lebanon, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Behind Closed Doors

  Fall Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  ‘Behind Closed Doors’ is a portrait of a farming family living in one of the most marginalised…

  

  Yakout Elhababi / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Behind the Wall

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  ‘Behind the Wall’ is the story of Nadia, an over-protected five-year-old girl who lives in a Ca…

  

  Karima Zoubir / Morocco, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Beit Byoot

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Jameela is an adorable eight-year-old girl who arrives at the perfect pastel playground with he…

  

  Mayar Hamdan / Jordan, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Blue Bicycle

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Twelve-year-old Ali lives with his mother and sister. When not at school, he works at a tyre re…

  

  Ümit Köreken / Turkey, 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

• Kashta

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Out in the beautiful quiet of the windswept dunes, a man teaches his young sons the traditional…

  

  A.J. Al Thani / 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

• Lamb

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  As ‘Lamb’ opens, nine-year-old Ephraïm (an affecting As ‘Lamb’ opens, nine-year-old Ephraïm (an…

  

  Yared Zeleke / France, Ethiopia, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Last Day at Home

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  A 12- year-old boy has just moved to Doha with his parents. To avoid dealing with the changes t…

  

  Noor Al-Nasr / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Listen to the Silence

  Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Nine years old and almost always smiling, Luka lives in a boarding school for deaf children, wh…

  

  Mariam Chachia / Georgia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• Noura Dreams

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Noura meets the love of her life, Lassaad, while her husband, Sofiane, is in jail. She raises h…

  

  Hinde Boujemaa / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Of Fathers and Sons

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  This affecting and disturbing documentary demonstrates that jihadism is a learned behaviour – o…

  

  Talal Derki / Syria, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Playtime

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Matthew lives with his mother, an army secretary, in Ahmadi, Kuwait. One night, she leaves him…

  

  Hamad Al-Tourah / Kuwait, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Time Tree

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Based on the children’s novel by the best-selling author Enid Richemont, 'The Time Tree' is a s…

  

  Celine Cotran / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Tiny Souls

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Marwa is nine and stranded in Al Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. Studying is her greatest worry…

  

  Dina Naser / Jordan, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• To the One Who Didn't Give Me Life

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  ‘To the One Who Didn’t Give Me Life’ tells the story of Wassim, a nine‐year‐old boy born and ra…

  

  Wassim Geagea / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Underdown

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Moving to Beirut’s anarchic rhythm, ‘Underdown’ follows the struggles of a Palestinian cab driv…

  

  Sarah Kaskas / Lebanon, Germany, 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

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