• Gaddafi's Girls

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Known as the Amazons or Revolutionary Nuns, they were personally selected by Colonel Gaddafi fo…

  

  Sylvia Stevens / Libya, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Hitch 60 (working title)

  Spring Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  Two mod girls from South-East London embark on a journey across continents, travelling away fro…

  

  Sara Al Obaidly / Qatar, United Kingdom, Turkey / Feature Documentary

• In the Future, They Ate from the Finest Porcelain

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  ‘In the Future, They Ate from the Finest Porcelain’ resides in the cross-section of sci-fi, arc…

  

  Larissa Sansour / Palestine, United Kingdom, Denmark, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• Invasion

  Fall Grant 2013 - Post-Production Stage

  On the night of 20 December, 1989, the USA launched a massive invasion of otherwise peaceful Pa…

  

  Abner Benaim / Panama, Argentina, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Joint Possession

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Tangier topography is in turmoil. Pharaonic real estate projects surround the Mansouria, a land…

  

  Leila Kilani / Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Lebanese Rocket Society

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  When filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige inadvertently discovered that their native…

  

  Khalil Joreige, Joana Hadjithomas / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Loving Wallada

  Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  Wallada, the only child of one of the last Umayyad caliphs, al-Mustakfi murdered in 1025, asser…

  

  Nacer Khemir / Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Madmen's Fort

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  In 1860, the Algerian Sahara is coveted by the colonial powers of the time, who dream of it as…

  

  Narimane Mari / Algeria, France, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Maghrebim

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  The director returns to the roots of his family’s history, starting from footage his parents fi…

  

  Ivan Boccara / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Man Behind the Microphone

  Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Hedi Jouini is the most popular musical star in Tunisian history, known as the “Frank Sinatra o…

  

  Claire Belhassine / Tunisia, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Memory Hotel

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Germany, 1945. World War II is nearing its climactic end. Five-year-old Sophie and her parents…

  

  Heinrich Sabl / Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Miara

  Fall Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  Miara and her father, Ahar, are outcasts by choice, living in the hostile lands of 7th-century…

  

  Talal Selhami / Morocco, Qatar / TV Series

• My Uncle the "Terrorist"

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  When I was a child, there was a portrait of a man in our house. I never knew who he was; nobody…

  

  Elias Moubarak / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• NARDJES A.

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  March 8th, 2019, International Women’s Day and the third consecutive Friday that the city of Al…

  

  Karim Aïnouz / France, Algeria, Germany, Brazil, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Nine Month War

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Twenty-four-year-old Jani lives in a small town in Western Ukraine, part of the minority Hungar…

  

  László Csuja / Hungary, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Notes on Displacement

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  The news is full of images of overcrowded boats and vast tent camps. But how much do we really…

  

  Khaled Jarrar / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Nothingwood

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  About a hundred kilometres away from Kabul, Salim Shaheen, the most popular and prolific actor-…

  

  Sonia Kronlund / France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production/Post-Production Stage

  What is left today from the Palestinian revolution are some images and sounds, pieces of film s…

  

  Mohanad Yaqubi / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• The Orphanage

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  'The Orphanage' is set in Kabul in the late 1980s. 15-year-old Qodrat lives on the streets and…

  

  Shahrbanoo Sadat / Afghanistan, Denmark, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Papicha

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  Algeria, 1990s—Nedjma is a free-spirited and independent young student. She refuses to allow th…

  

  Mounia Meddour / Algeria, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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