• Octopus

  Spring Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

  A filmmaker arrives to work on his new film and is confronted with a colossal explosion that ch…

  

  Karim Kassem / Lebanon, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Of Sheep and Men

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Bab el Oued, Algiers, 2016. Men and sheep. Sixteen-year-old Habib dreams of becoming a veterina…

  

  Karim Sayad / Algeria, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Omar Amiralay - Sorrow, Time and Silence

  Spring Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

  This is not a portrait of the Syrian director Omar Amiralay. This is not a cross-section of the…

  

  Hala Alabdalla / France, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• On Trials

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  The enacted. The robe. The absurd. Failed precedents. ‘On Trials’ is a film about realms of law…

  

  Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• On the Crossbar

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  In June of 1978, Tunisia entered the international football scene as the first African team eve…

  

  Sami Tlili / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• On the Hillsides

  Fall Grants 2016 -

  A wind of liberty called the Arab Spring has been blowing in this part of the world. Algeria re…

  

  Abdallah Badis / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Ouaga Girls

  Fall Grants 2016 -

  The sun shines over an open garage in Burkina Faso’s capital, where Bintou is lacquering a car…

  

  Theresa Traore Dahlberg / Burkina Faso, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Ouroboros

  Fall Grants 2016 -

  Diego Marcon is a man with a broken heart who journeys into the heart of the human condition on…

  

  Basma Alsharif / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Out of Place

  Fall Grants 2020 - Development Stage

  Mohammed, a chubby adolescent, is dancing the Dabke with his teenage friends in the cultural ce…

  

  Mohammed Al-Madjalawi / Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Pacific Club

  Fall Grants 2021 - Production Stage

  La Défense, the 1980s. Paris’ business district is booming—in the day, men and women come to wo…

  

  Valentin Noujaïm / France, Qatar / Short Documentary

• The Pact of Aleppo

  Spring Grants 2020 -

  Set in Aleppo from the first demonstrations in 2011 up to the evacuation of the city in 2016, '…

  

  Karim Serjieh / Syria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The People

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Mahfod Lakroune, Ahcen Djouzi and Amir Bensaid from the former troupe “Action Culturelle des Tr…

  

  Rahma Benhamou El Madani / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Perhaps What I Fear Does Not Exist

  Spring Grants 2019 -

  “I can’t believe this is happening”, I said to myself when my father’s body failed unexpectedly…

  

  Corine Shawi / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Places Of The Soul

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  The story of ‘Places Of The Soul’ follows Qatari filmmaker, Hamida on a journey to Antarctica w…

  

  Hamida Issa / Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Places of The Soul

  Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  The story of ‘Places Of The Soul’ begins in Ushuaia, Argentina and follows an environmental exp…

  

  Hamida Issa / Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Plot 35

  Fall Grants 2016 -

  Plot 35 is a place that was never mentioned in my family; it is where my elder sister, who died…

  

  Eric Caravaca / France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Polaris

  Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  Hayat, an expert sailor in the Arctic, navigates far from humans and her family’s past in Franc…

  

  Ainara Vera / France, Greenland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• R21 aka RESTORING SOLIDARITY

  Spring Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

  After screening his latest film 'Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory' in Tokyo, the film dir…

  

  Mohanad Yaqubi / Palestine, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Railway Men

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  Conducting the trains of Line #1, the country's deadliest, five employees struggle with the dar…

  

  Erige Sehiri / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Republic of Silence

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  They grew up in the lands of dictators and surveillance, where images are censored, photos are…

  

  Diana El Jeiroudi / Syria, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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