• 2 or 3 things I don't know about her

  Spring Grants 2021 - Production Stage

  Lila is an 18-year-old girl living in Brest, France. She recently decided to wear a veil, to th…

  

  Sabrina Idiri Chemloul / France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Al-Sit

  Fall Grants 2018 -

  In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, 15-year-old Nafisa has a crush on Babiker, but her parent…

  

  Suzannah Mirghani / Sudan, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Amussu

  Fall Grants 2018 -

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

  

  Nadir Bouhmouch / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Arabic Interpreter

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  After living a relatively normal life as a student studying in Berlin, Hassan reluctantly accep…

  

  Ali Kareem Obaid / Iraq, Italy, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Aziza

  Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  ‘Aziza’ is a documentary on the place that women occupy in the history of decolonization in Mor…

  

  Chahine Fellahi / Morocco, Qatar / Short Documentary

• Batata

  Spring Grant 2015 -

  Shot over an unparalleled ten years, the latest film by Lebanese-Syrian director Noura Kevorkia…

  

  Noura Kevorkian / Lebanon, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Beit Byoot

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Set in a dystopian dollhouse, Jameela, a friendly little girl wants nothing more than to fit in…

  

  Mayar Hamdan / Jordan, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Big Boys Don't Cry

  Spring Grants 2020 - Development Stage

  Yehia, a 35-year-old bodyguard, embodies a hyper-masculine image of power and violence. After h…

  

  Muhammad Mustapha / Egypt, Germany, 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

• The Day of Wrath: Tales from Tripoli

  Spring Grants 2021 - Production Stage

  Combining fiction with the documentation of real events, 'The Day of Wrath: Tales from Tripoli'…

  

  Rania Rafei / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• Escape

  Spring Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

  'Escape' is a poetic and intimate journey on the path of exile, through the story of five Syria…

  

  Katia Jarjoura / France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Experimental Summer

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  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

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