• Out of Place

  Fall Grants 2020 - Development Stage

  Mohammed, a chubby adolescent, is dancing the Dabke with his teenage friends in the cultural ce…

  

  Mohammed Al-Madjalawi / Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The People

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Mahfod Lakroune, Ahcen Djouzi and Amir Bensaid from the former troupe “Action Culturelle des Tr…

  

  Rahma Benhamou El Madani / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Places of The Soul

  Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  The story of ‘Places Of The Soul’ begins in Ushuaia, Argentina and follows an environmental exp…

  

  Hamida Issa / Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Playground Chronicles

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Brahim and his family are of Moroccan descent, and live on the grounds of a crane construction…

  

  Brahim Fritah / France, Qatar, Morocco / Feature Narrative

• Playtime

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Matthew lives with his mother, an army secretary, in Ahmadi, Kuwait. One night, she leaves him…

  

  Hamad Al-Tourah / Kuwait, 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…

  

  Muhannad Lamin / Libya, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Red Olive Tree

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  The Belmakis, an upper-middle-class family in France, appear to lead a trouble-free life; all,…

  

  Karim Bensalah / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Saffron's Land

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  In the Atlas Mountains lies Safrana, an isolated village that was repeatedly attacked by the Fr…

  

  Yassine El Idrissi / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Samir in the Dust

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  I always liked smugglers because they are playing with borders. But, I soon realized that the o…

  

  Mohamed Ouzine / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• School of Hope

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  In the vast expanse of desert, East of Atlas Mountains in Morocco, seasonal rain and snow once…

  

  Mohamed El Aboudi / Finland, France, Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Screwdriver

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Young Ziad is the star of the Jalazon Refugee Camp basketball team in Palestine. When his best…

  

  Bassam Jarbawi / Palestine, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Sea Ahead

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  A young woman walks out of the Beirut airport alone and makes her way back home to her parents’…

  

  Ely Dagher / Lebanon, France, Belgium, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Searching For Kikhia (working Title)

  Spring Grants 2019 -

  When director Jihan Kikhia was six years old, her father disappeared. He flew to Cairo and neve…

  

  Jihan Kikhia / Libya, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Seven Mountains and Seven Seas

  Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  Tamar, an old man, lies sick in bed in his neat European apartment. He struggles to liberate hi…

  

  Noel Keserwany / France, Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Ship Of Fools

  Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  She didn’t even know they were bombs. When her father could no longer pretend they were falling…

  

  Alia Haju / Germany, Lebanon, Qatar / Short Documentary

• Sirena

  Fall Grants 2018 -

  Lake Titicaca, 1984. Renowned La Paz engineer Morgan Cabrera drowns in a boating accident. An u…

  

  Carlos Piñeiro / Bolivia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Sister

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  In a small town in present-day Bulgaria, a mother and her two daughters are struggling to survi…

  

  Svetla Tsotsorkova / Bulgaria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Son

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Tunisia, Summer 2011. Fares, Meriem, and their 10-year-old son Aziz are a modern and happy Tuni…

  

  Mehdi Barsaoui / Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Son of a Dog

  Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  Set against the backdrop of a never-ending war, ‘Son of a Dog’ is the coming-of-age story of 17…

  

  Alain Sauma / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Speed Sisters

  Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Meet Marah, Mona, Betty, Noor and Maysoon – the first all-woman rally-racing team in the Middle…

  

  Amber Fares / Palestine, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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