• Al Baseer – The Blind Ferryman

  Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  The blind ferryman Ayoub lives in the southern Iraqi marshes. He knows how to find his way arou…

  

  Ali Al-Fatlawi / Switzerland, Qatar, Iraq / Feature Narrative

• The Day I Lost My Shadow

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Sana is a young mother struggling to raise her eight-year-old child in war-torn Syria in 2012.…

  

  Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Roaming the streets of Beirut searching for metal objects to be recycled, Ahmed, a Syrian refug…

  

  Wissam Charaf / France, Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Even Donkeys Have Remorse

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Inside a crumbling old house, Omar spends his days terrified of the outside, while Reem is pass…

  

  Shirin Abu Shaqra / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A House in Jerusalem

  Spring Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  Young Rebecca is forced to move with her father from the UK to Jerusalem, in the hopes that a n…

  

  Muayad Alayan / Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Key

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Fathi Moftah, a child refugee, is obsessed with collecting keys. One day, while he is working a…

  

  Ghassan Jaradat / Jordan, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Ladder to Damascus

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Ghalia moves to Damascus to study acting and rents a room in a traditional courtyard house, whe…

  

  Mohamad Malas / Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Language

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Used to reading and printing Braille, a blind man in Baghdad becomes a giant and finds he can “…

  

  Mortada Gzar / Iraq, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Last Day at Home

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  A 12- year-old boy has just moved to Doha with his parents. To avoid dealing with the changes t…

  

  Noor Al-Nasr / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Made in Qatar at D’reesha Programme 2 - Beit Byoot

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Set in a dystopian dollhouse, little Jameela seeks the acceptance of two mean girls. But when s…

  

  Mayar Hamdan / Jordan, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Meskoun

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  While attempting to enter Europe, Lotfi Meskini drowns with seven other unfortunate illegal imm…

  

  Hicham Lasri / Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt, Qatar / TV Series

• The Mute

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  In 1960s Qatar, Mama Looloo lives alone as she builds a spaceship in the middle of her living r…

  

  Thamer Al-Thani / Qatar / Short Narrative

• My Love Awaits Me by the Sea

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  ‘My Love Awaits Me by the Sea’ is a poetic documentary that narrates the story of its director,…

  

  Mais Darwazah / Jordan, Palestine, Qatar, Germany / Feature Documentary

• Night

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  While searching for sleepless souls, a storyteller finds a woman standing in front of her door,…

  

  Ahmad Saleh / Palestine, Jordan, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Odd town

  Spring Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  Khaled, a young man, starts his day with his usual morning routine. Before leaving, his father…

  

  Mohammed Fakhroo / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Oddity Tales From A Strange Land

  Spring Grants 2020 - Development Stage

  Set in the MENA region, ’Oddity Tales from a Strange Land’ is an episodic TV series, where huma…

  

  Ahmad Samara / Jordan, Qatar / TV Series

• Plum Season

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Nouha, a 16-year-old teenager, lives in a close relationship with her mother. Her father reappe…

  

  Rim Mejdi / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Queen of the Hoggar (working title)

  Spring Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  Kella, a young princess, and her elder sister are forced to leave their home because of war. Th…

  

  Muhannad Lamin / Libya, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Red Path

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Two young shepherds, Nizar (16), and his cousin Achraf (14) are grazing their goats on a…

  

  Lotfi Achour / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Rest In Piece

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Shelling forces the 40-year-old Midyan to flee his homeland. He takes with him only his dearest…

  

  Antoine Antabi / Syria, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Short Narrative

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