• 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

• 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

  In the hope of fulfilling their life-long desire of living in the Holy Land, a Jewish American…

  

  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

• Multicoloured Bahtan

  Fall Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  Emotionless Bahtan meets hyperactive Felfella and together they discover the secrets behind Bah…

  

  Nermeen Salem / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• 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…

  

  Mohannad Ahmed Muhammad Alamin / Libya, 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

• Sanctorum

  Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  In a small town plagued by a war between the army and drug traffickers, a child has lost his mo…

  

  Joshua Gil / Mexico, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Scales

  Fall Grant 2014 - Development Stage

  The only source of the food on the island is mermaid flesh. The only way to keep the food suppl…

  

  Shahad Ameen / Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Severed Head

  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

• Speak So I Can See You

  Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  Set at the intersection of an observational documentary and an audio-visual experiment, this fi…

  

  Marija Stojnic / Serbia, Croatia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• That Which Is Coming

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  ‘That Which Is Coming’ is an experimental video installation shot with a Phantom camera. It exp…

  

  Sophia Al-Maria / Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• The Time Tree

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Based on the children’s novel by the best-selling author Enid Richemont, 'The Time Tree' is a s…

  

  Celine Cotran / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Waves '98

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  The complex relationship of contemporary Beirutis to their troubled home city is beautifully im…

  

  Ely Dagher / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

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