• Under This Roof

  Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  Nadim Asmar’s celebration rally of his presidential candidacy is interrupted when seventy-year-…

  

  Areej Mahmoud / Lebanon / TV Series

• 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

• Underneath The Fig Tree

  Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  The weekend before school starts in early September, a family of three, Protagonist Layla (13-1…

  

  Nada Bedair / Egypt, United States of America, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Unknown Saint

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  In this brilliantly comedic modern fable, debut feature director Alaa Eddine Aljem takes audien…

  

  Alaa Eddine Aljem / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Unremember

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  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 Tomorrow

  Fall Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

  Fereshteh is a young mother facing a serious dilemma. On the surface, she is relatively happy,…

  

  Ali Asgari / Iran, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Until the Birds Return

  Fall Grant 2015 -

  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

• Vanishing

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  In modern-day Beirut, single mother Rita juggles her work as an investigative journalist with t…

  

  Lucien Bourjeily / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Very Big Shot

  Spring Grant 2015 -

  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 -

  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 -

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

  

  Annemarie Jacir / Palestine, France, Colombia, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Norway / 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 -

  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

• Wear & Tear

  Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  Ayda has been an operator at a call centre for several years. She is in her forties and lives b…

  

  Sarra Abidi / Tunisia, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Weldi

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  A Tunisian couple are nearing retirement age, but times are hard, and money is tight. The life…

  

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

• West of May

  Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  In 'West of May', I want to describe Lebanon through the portrait of the Alayli family. This fa…

  

  Sarah Srage / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• When We're Born

  Spring Grant 2011 -

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

  

  Tamer Ezzat / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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