• On The Road To Downtown

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  Through the lives of the characters and their simple daily details, we discover together the do…

  

  Sherif El Bendary / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Orphanage

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  'The Orphanage' is set in Kabul in the late 1980s. 15-year-old Qodrat lives on the streets and…

  

  Shahrbanoo Sadat / Afghanistan, Denmark, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Out on the Streets

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Nine men gather for a workshop on a rooftop. There they perform confrontations of everyday life…

  

  Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Papicha

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  Algeria, 1990s—Nedjma is a free-spirited and independent young student. She refuses to allow th…

  

  Mounia Meddour / Algeria, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Photographer

  Fall Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  Maher, a photographer for the Syrian regime, takes photos of deceased military personnel. The r…

  

  Anas Khalaf / Syria, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Plastic Flowers‏

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  A documentary about the experience of enforced disappearance in the prisons of ISIS told throug…

  

  Amer Mattar / Syria, Germany, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Prisoner and Jailer

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  The story of two contrasting Libyans, one a key official in the former regime, the other one of…

  

  Muhannad Lamin / Libya, 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

• Republic of Silence

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  They grew up in the lands of dictators and surveillance, where images are censored, photos are…

  

  Diana El Jeiroudi / Syria, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• A Road to Damascus

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Based on Meedo’s novel of the same title. A bus carrying immigrant farmers is gunned down just…

  

  Meedo Taha / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Rouge Parole

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  The Arab Spring erupted in a country where few would have expected, starting a political earthq…

  

  Elyes Baccar / Tunisia, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• Scenes from a Revolt Sustained

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Examining the culture and history of Tunisia and how it has been mediated or ignored by the Wes…

  

  Kays Mejri, Matt Peterson / France, Tunisia, United States of America, 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

• 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

• Standstill

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Arihote is a Kanienkehaka photographer whose life is at a standstill. When he witnesses the mur…

  

  Majdi El-Omari / Canada, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Still Recording

  Fall Grants 2016 -

  Two young artists, Saeed Al Batal and Ghiath Ayoub become embroiled in the events of the besieg…

  

  Saeed Al Batal, Ghiath Ayoub / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Stronger than a Bullet

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, war propaganda has been Iran’s largest industry. In the n…

  

  Maryam Ebrahimi / Iran, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Tadmor

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Raymond. Youssef. Ali. Saad. Moussa. Rashid. Mahmoud. Elias. Individuals. Together. The Lebanes…

  

  Monika Borgmann, Lokman Slim / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Dragon Blood Island

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  ‘The Dragon Blood Island’ is a short documentary that focuses on the beauty of what has been de…

  

  Sufian Abulohom / Yemen, United States of America, Qatar / Short Documentary

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