• Al Yarmouk Ghetto

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  At the beginning of the Syrian revolution, Yarmouk camp near Damascus was subject to shelling a…

  

  Abdullah Al Khatib / Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Al-Sit

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  In a Sudanese cotton-farming village, the old matriarch, Al-Sit, must be consulted for her bles…

  

  Suzannah Mirghani / Sudan, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Amussu

  Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  Imider, southeastern Morocco. A rapacious silver mine has syphoned aquifer water for decades, d…

  

  Nadir Bouhmouch / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Aya

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Seven-year-old Aya lives in an inner-city neighbourhood of Marseille. Intelligent and obsessed…

  

  Moufida Fedhila / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Batata

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  The story of ‘Batata’ starts in the year 2009, in the beautiful fields of Lebanon’s Beqaa Valle…

  

  Noura Kevorkian / Lebanon, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Born in the Maelstrom

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Inspired by the novel ‘Naissance de Rebecca à l’ère des tourments’ by Québécoise author Marie-C…

  

  Meryam Joobeur / Tunisia, Canada, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Chaos

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  ‘Chaos’ narrates the story of three women in three cities – three women who have given up on li…

  

  Sara Fattahi / Syria, Austria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Cinema Palestine

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  This film will focus on the ‘fourth wave’ of Palestinian cinema, running from 1980 to the prese…

  

  Tim Schwab / Palestine, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Daoud's Winter

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Iraq, winter 1988. Daoud, a young man from Baghdad, is drafted into the war with Iran. At the f…

  

  Koutaiba Al-Janabi / Iraq, Lebanon, Netherlands, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Do You Love Me

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  ‘Do You Love Me’, named after the widely popular Bendaly Family song that was released in 1978…

  

  Lana Daher / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Dream Away

  Spring Grant 2014 - Development Stage

  Representing freedom and easy cash, Sharm El Sheikh has long been a dream destination for Egypt…

  

  Marouan Omara, Johanna Domke / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Egyptian Jeanne d'Arc

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  ‘Egyptian Jeanne d’Arc’ is a creative documentary that explores issues of female emancipation i…

  

  Iman Kamel / Kuwait, Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Experimental Summer

  Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Both Mahmoud and Zeinab join in the search for the original version of an Egyptian film that wa…

  

  Mahmoud Lotfy / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Fahavalo, Madagascar 1947

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  After World War II, nearly 10,000 Malagasy soldiers travelled back to their island on a liner n…

  

  Marie Clemence Andriamonta Paes / Madagascar, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Femmetasia

  Fall Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Coming from a humble village, Hanane is determined to make a name for herself as the founder an…

  

  Mouhssine El Badaoui / Morocco, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Fifth Resurrection of Farid

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. An old man comes across an odd collection of film reels, vinyl recor…

  

  Khalid Youssef / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• 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 / 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

• Gevar's Land

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Over four seasons, we follow the labour-filled days of Gevar, a Syrian refugee, whose small gar…

  

  Qutaiba Barhamji / Syria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Go Home

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  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

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