• The Foreign Son

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

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

  

  Abdallah Badis / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Forgotten

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  A journey in the life of Kozo Okamoto, a Japanese freedom fighter and member of the Japanese Re…

  

  Ghada Terawi / Palestine, Qatar, United Arab Emirates / Feature Documentary

• The Forgotten

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Mustafa steals across the Israeli border with the help of a local smuggler. This is a one-way t…

  

  Ehab Tarabieh / Syria, Qatar / Short Narrative

• 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

• In the Shade of a Royal Palace (Dwellers of the Cabins)

  Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  Through her relationship with her musician father, Hend tries to discover the history of her pe…

  

  Hend Bakr / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• Khartoum

  Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  Four Sudanese filmmakers mix observational documentary and innovative graphics, archives and an…

  

  Ibrahim Ahmad, Rawia Alhag, Anas Saeed, Timmea Ahmed / Sudan, United Kingdom, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• La Nuit a Peine

  Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  'La Nuit a Peine' is conceived as a triptych—on either side of the central stage, the film came…

  

  Wiame Haddad / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• 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 Sister and I

  Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  Set around two sisters in Riyadh, the series explores their contrasting lives. Mariam, the elde…

  

  Zaid Abu Hamdan, Lucy Der Tavitian / Saudi Arabia, 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

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