• 2 Rooms and a Parlor

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Khalil Suleiman has always preferred to stay away from other people, but after his wife’s death…

  

  Sherif El Bendary / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Adam

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-ye…

  

  Maryam Touzani / Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Al-Sit

  Fall Grants 2018 -

  In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, 15-year-old Nafisa has a crush on Babiker, but her parent…

  

  Suzannah Mirghani / Sudan, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Behind Closed Doors

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Six-year-old Leila and her mother, Sara, have a close relationship. They live a comfortable lif…

  

  Hend Fakhroo / Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Beirut 1931

  Fall Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  “K.” arrives in his native Jaffa after the disappearance of “M.” Like a lurking shadow, “M.” wo…

  

  Kamal Aljafari / Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Brotherhood

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  Malik, an eighteen-year-old with flaming red hair, returns to his small village in Tunisia afte…

  

  Meryam Joobeur / Canada, Tunisia, Qatar, Sweden / Short Narrative

• Burning Birds

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  1989. A small village in eastern Sri Lanka. After her husband is abducted, tortured and murdere…

  

  Sanjeewa Pushpakumara / Sri Lanka, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Children of the Enemy

  Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  ‘Children of the Enemy’ is the story of bohemian musician Patricio whose daughter married one o…

  

  Gorki Glaser-Müller / Sweden, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Constructions

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Pedro, an ageing security guard, patrols a deserted construction site in Córdoba, Argentina. Ac…

  

  Fernando Martín Restelli / Argentina, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Costa Brava, Lebanon

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  In ‘Costa Brava, Lebanon’, the free-spirited Badri family escape the overwhelming pollution and…

  

  Mounia Akl / Lebanon, France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Daughters of Abdul-Rahman

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Single and middle-aged, Zainab lives a dreary existence as a local seamstress and her father’s…

  

  Zaid Abu Hamdan / Jordan, Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Deep Long Breath

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  In 18 days, the January 25 Egyptian Revolution toppled a three-decade-old dictatorship and Egyp…

  

  Tahani Rached / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Desert Fish

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  The southern desert of Morocco. The son wants to become a fisherman and is always dreaming of t…

  

  Alaa Eddine Aljem / Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Fair Light of Dawn

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  'The Fair Light of Dawn’ offers a kaleidoscopic view of the lives of several citizens in Beirut…

  

  Hisham Bizri / Lebanon, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Foreign Son

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Answering the call of his homeland, of which he retains only childhood memories, 50-year-old Om…

  

  Abdallah Badis / France, Qatar, Algeria / Feature Documentary

• Ghadi

  Spring Grant 2013 - Post-Production Stage

  In a small neighbourhood of a traditional Lebanese coastal town, Leba, a music instructor, marr…

  

  Amin Dora / Lebanon, 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 -

  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

• Gubgub

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  After securing her first catch of the day while crab-hunting with her father and brother, brigh…

  

  Nouf Al Sulaiti / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Haifa Street

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  It’s 2006 and Baghdad is ravaged by sectarian violence. Haifa Street is the epicentre of the co…

  

  Mohanad Hayal / Iraq, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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