• 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

• Alam, The Flag

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Palestinian student Tamer doesn’t meddle in politics; at the same time, the memory of his uncle…

  

  Firas Khoury / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Ava

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Ava’s first visit to the gynaecologist with her mother is a traumatic experience for the young…

  

  Sadaf Foroughi / Iran, Canada, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Aya

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Seven-year-old Aya lives in an inner-city neighbourhood of Marseille. Intelligent and obsessed…

  

  Moufida Fedhila / Tunisia, France, 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

• Between Sisters

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  The two sisters Ornella and Teresa have cared for each other through their whole lives. Teresa…

  

  Manu Gerosa / Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Birdshot

  Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Fifteen-year-old Maya works with her father on an isolated farm in the Philippines. While ventu…

  

  Mikhail Red / Philippines, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Born in the Maelstrom

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Inspired by the novel ‘Naissance de Rebecca à l’ère des tourments’ by Québécoise author Marie-C…

  

  Meryam Joobeur / Tunisia, Canada, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Dark Skull

  Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  After his father dies, Elder is forced to live with his grandmother – far away from the city –…

  

  Kiro Russo / Bolivia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Daughters of Abdul-Rahman

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  After a lifetime of suppressing traditions in a tough neighbourhood in Amman, Zainab – 45, veil…

  

  Zaid Abu Hamdan / Jordan, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Ghetto Child

  Spring Grant 2013 - Post-Production Stage

  In a juvenile detention centre, Madi and his younger brother Bright try to fight the daily inju…

  

  Guillaume Tordjman / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Girl Made Of Dust

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  In a village of the Lebanese Chouf, ten-year-old Ruba lives in a dream world filled with witche…

  

  Hiam Abbass / Palestine, Lebanon, France, Germany, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Go Home

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Nada is going home. Or at least she wants to. When she returns to Lebanon, she realises she's a…

  

  Jihane Chouaib / Lebanon, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Hitch 60 (working title)

  Spring Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  Two mod girls from South-East London embark on a journey across continents, travelling away fro…

  

  Sara Al Obaidly / Qatar, United Kingdom, Turkey / Feature Documentary

• Honey Cigar

  Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  France, 1993. Selma, a sharp, 18-year-old Algerian girl, lives in a mostly Catholic suburb of P…

  

  Kamir Aïnouz / France, Algeria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• House in the Fields

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  High in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, life in an isolated rural Amazigh community has changed…

  

  Tala Hadid / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Hunting Season

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  After his mother dies, 17-year-old Nahuel is shipped from Buenos Aires to the south of Argentin…

  

  Natalia Garagiola / Argentina, France, Germany, United States of America, Qatar / Feature 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

• Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Marjoun is 17 years old and an outsider in her home of Little Rock, Arkansas. While her father…

  

  Susan Youssef / Lebanon, Netherlands, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Nine Month War

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Twenty-four-year-old Jani lives in a small town in Western Ukraine, part of the minority Hungar…

  

  László Csuja / Hungary, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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