• Tariq

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  A story of a relationship between a teenager and his mother. Tariq decides to test his manhood…

  

  Alaa Abdel Razek Mosbah / Egypt, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Teacher

  Spring Grants 2021 - Production Stage

  Basem El-Saleh, a Palestinian school teacher, pieces his life together after the loss of his so…

  

  Farah Nabulsi / Palestine, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Thank You for Banking with Us!

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  The father of the poor and bickering sisters Mariam and Noura dies and unexpectedly leaves a la…

  

  Laila Abbas / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Alleys

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production, Production, Production Stage

  In a claustrophobic East Amman neighbourhood, where life is dictated by gossip and violence, Al…

  

  Bassel Ghandour / Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Bath

  Fall Grants 2018 -

  When his wife leaves on a business trip, Imed must take care of his 5-year-old son, Hedi, for t…

  

  Anissa Daoud / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Present

  Spring Grants 2019 -

  Yusef is a family man from the West Bank, battling enormous queues at dawn to get to work every…

  

  Farah Nabulsi / Palestine, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Return Of The Jerboas

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Algeria, 2000. Hakim, a young doctor, arrives in the desert. He moves in with Ammar's family wh…

  

  Amira Géhanne Khalfallah / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Theeb

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Arabia, 1916. Theeb [Wolf] lives with his Bedouin tribe in a forgotten corner of the Ottoman Em…

  

  Naji Abu Nowar / Jordan, United Kingdom, Qatar, United Arab Emirates / Feature Narrative

• They

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Fourteen-year-old J goes by the pronoun ‘They” and lives with their parents in the suburbs of C…

  

  Anahita Ghazvinizadeh / Iran, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• This Is Not A Drill

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  In the wake of a radioactive blast, a young and pregnant couple Maya and Malik follow instructi…

  

  Nadia Al-Khater / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Though I Know the River Is Dry

  Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  Alaa has just returned to Palestine after years spent in Detroit. Following the Arab uprisings,…

  

  Omar Hamilton / Egypt, Palestine, United Kingdom, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Timbuktu

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Timbuktu, a historic and multicultural city in the West African nation of Mali, is taken over b…

  

  Abderrahmane Sissako / France, Mauritania, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Tlamess

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  Following the death of his mother, "S", a young Tunisian soldier, returns home. He deserts the…

  

  Ala Eddine Slim / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• To All Naked Men

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  The war in Syria is drawing to an end, and the first reliable election stands on the ruins of t…

  

  Bassam Chekhes / Syria, Netherlands, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• To Live To Sing

  Spring Grants 2019 -

  Zhao Li is the manager of a small Sichuan Opera troupe of 11 members living and performing toge…

  

  Johnny Ma / China, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Too Late to Die Young

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  The summer of 1990 in Chile. A small group of families lives in an isolated community right bel…

  

  Dominga Sotomayor / Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Tramontane

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Young Rabih is well-liked by family, friends and the community of the Lebanese village he calls…

  

  Vatche Boulghourjian / Lebanon, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Translator

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Having gotten into trouble with the Syrian government, Sami has been living for years as a poli…

  

  Rana Kazkaz, Anas Khalaf / Syria, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Tropic of violence

  Spring Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

  Mary is a nurse in Mayotte. One night on the beach, a young woman rescued from a "kwassa" (a cl…

  

  Manuel Schapira / France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Tug of War

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  Set in 1950s colonial-era Zanzibar, ‘Tug of War’ follows a pair of star-crossed lovers Denge, a…

  

  Amil Shivji / Tanzania, South Africa, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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