• Heim

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  ‘Heim’ takes place in a refugee centre in Berlin-Tempelhof airport, which though technically ou…

  

  Liwaa Yazaji, Mohammad Abou Laban / Lebanon, Qatar / TV Series

• Hope

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Hévi and Walat, a Kurdish-Syrian refugee couple in their thirties meet a human trafficker. They…

  

  Mohammad Shaikhow / Syria, Iraq, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• House Without Roof

  Fall Grant 2013 -

  ‘House Without Roof’ tells the journey of Alan, Jan and Liya, three siblings born in the Kurdis…

  

  Soleen Yusef / Iraq, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• I, Hummus

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  When I landed in Canada in 2006, I became recognized as a giant walking plate of hummus. Being…

  

  Rawane Nassif / Lebanon, Canada, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Janitou

  Fall Grant 2015 -

  In Algeria in the mid-1980s, during a period of intense political and social unrest, the Bollyw…

  

  Amine Hattou / Algeria, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Last of Us

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  N crosses the desert to North Africa, intending to obtain illegal passage to Europe. After he i…

  

  Ala Eddine Slim / Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege

  Spring Grants 2019 -

  The district of Yarmouk in Damascus, Syria, sheltered the largest Palestinian refugee camp in t…

  

  Abdallah Al-Khatib / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Locals. Qatar.

  Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  Locals of all classes, professions, genders, and backgrounds talk about their dreams, responsib…

  

  Saud Al-Thani, Stephen Ochsner / Qatar / Web Series

• 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

• Mariam

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Ever since she attended the Hajj with her grandmother, Mariam has covered her head, but when Fr…

  

  Faiza Ambah / France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia / Short Narrative

• Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf

  Fall Grant 2012 -

  Marjoun is 17 years old and an outsider in her home of Little Rock, Arkansas. While her father…

  

  Susan Youssef / Lebanon, Netherlands, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Men in the Sun

  Fall Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  Chatila, Fatah and Abu-Love, three Palestinian refugees, dream of escaping Athens after seven y…

  

  Mahdi Fleifel / Palestine, Greece, United Kingdom, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Meskoun

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  While attempting to enter Europe, Lotfi Meskini drowns with seven other unfortunate illegal imm…

  

  Hicham Lasri / Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt, Qatar / TV Series

• The Miracle of Almería

  Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  At the far end of Europe, on the southern border of Spain, lies Almería. It is a huge province…

  

  Moon Blaisse / Belgium, Switzerland, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• My English Cousin

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  2001, Fahed reaches the UK his head filled with dreams. 2018, in the thrall of a mid-life crisi…

  

  Karim Sayad / Algeria, Switzerland, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• My Father's House

  Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  In 2012, two weeks after ‘A World Not Ours’ was completed, my father died at the age of 59. He…

  

  Mahdi Fleifel / Denmark, United Kingdom, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Myth of Mahmoud (Working Title)

  Spring Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

  In this reflexive and creative documentary, Mayar, 23, picks up the camera to capture the intri…

  

  Mayar Hamdan, Shaima Tamimi / Palestine, Lebanon, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Nezouh

  Fall Grants 2019 -

  During the Syrian conflict in Damascus, a missile destroys the ceiling of Zeina’s house. She is…

  

  Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Northern Wind

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Marcel, a worker in a French shoe factory, lives a simple life between family, fishing and the…

  

  Walid Mattar / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

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