• The Tunnel

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  A couple mourns the tragic loss of a child. Isolated in the harsh conditions of the desert land…

  

  Karim Souaki / Tunisia, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Under the Hat

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  ‘Under the Hat’ tells the story of Sheikh Abdul Kareem, an Egyptian mosque prayer caller on the…

  

  Amal Al-Agroobi / United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Under the Shadow

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  A victim of the post-revolution state crackdown on dissidents, one-time medical student Shideh…

  

  Babak Anvari / Iran, United Kingdom, Jordan, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Unremember

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  Joana is a 15-year-old who feeds her soul with literature and rock. She lives in Paris with her…

  

  Flavia Castro / Brazil, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Until the Birds Return

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Mourad, a businessman, rose to success in Algeria in the 2000s. Now a new man, he wants to stay…

  

  Karim Moussaoui / Algeria, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Valley

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Following a car accident on a lone mountain road, a middle-aged man loses his memory. Drenched…

  

  Ghassan Salhab / Lebanon, France, Germany, Qatar, United Arab Emirates / Feature Narrative

• Very Big Shot

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  In this clever take on the caper film, three brothers find themselves inextricably bound up in…

  

  Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Volubilis

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Abdelkader is a security guard and Malika is a domestic employee. Recently married, they are ma…

  

  Faouzi Bensaïdi / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Waiting Room

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  We are all aware of the various differences among cultures – language and tradition being the m…

  

  Hend Fakhroo / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Wajib

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Shadi returns to his hometown to help his father hand-deliver his sister’s wedding invitations.…

  

  Annemarie Jacir / Palestine, United Arab Emirates, France, Switzerland, Norway, Colombia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Wake

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  In the midst of night, Samaa, an old woman and her pubescent son Sari are at odds on the approp…

  

  Zahed Bata / Jordan, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Wallay

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  When 13-year-old Ady gets himself into trouble in a French suburb, his father decides to send h…

  

  Berni Goldblat / France, Burkina Faso, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Weldi

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Riadh is about to retire from his work as a forklift operator at the port of Tunis. The life he…

  

  Mohamed Ben Attia / Tunisia, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• When We're Born

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  A revolution has shaped the nation, and the dreamscapes of three Egyptians are interconnected i…

  

  Tamer Ezzat / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Where Did I Leave My Face?

  Fall Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Ali, originally from Jerusalem, lives in Paris with his girlfriend, Julie. He is constantly tra…

  

  Ramzi Maqdisi / Palestine, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Where Do We Go Now?

  Spring Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  As sectarian conflict looms over a village in the Lebanese countryside, women of different reli…

  

  Nadine Labaki / Lebanon, France, Italy, Egypt / Feature Narrative

• White Sun

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  When his father dies, anti-regime partisan Chandra must travel to his remote mountain village a…

  

  Deepak Rauniyar / Nepal, United States of America, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Wind Blew On

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  A boy is on a journey. Things have strayed from their course without anyone knowing why. The un…

  

  Katrín Ólafsdóttir / Iceland, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Window

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Baghdad under the American occupation. Iraq is in a power vacuum; anarchy is rife; curfews are…

  

  Koutaiba Al-Janabi / Iraq, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Women With Secrets

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  In a small town in present-day Bulgaria, a mother and her two daughters are struggling to survi…

  

  Svetla Tsotsorkova / Bulgaria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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