• Odd town

  Spring Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  Khaled, a young man, starts his day with his usual morning routine. Before leaving, his father…

  

  Mohammed Fakhroo / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Omé

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Nine-year-old Elias, an active churchgoer preparing for his first communion, tests his faith fo…

  

  Wassim Geagea / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

• 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

• On the Hillsides

  Fall Grants 2016 -

  A wind of liberty called the Arab Spring has been blowing in this part of the world. Algeria re…

  

  Abdallah Badis / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Orca

  Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  Elham, a young divorced Iranian woman, survives a horrific beating at the hands of her estrange…

  

  Sahar Mossayebi / Qatar, Iran / Feature Narrative

• Ouaga Girls

  Fall Grants 2016 -

  The sun shines over an open garage in Burkina Faso’s capital, where Bintou is lacquering a car…

  

  Theresa Traore Dahlberg / Burkina Faso, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Our River...Our Sky

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production, Post-Production Stage

  Baghdad, 2006. All over the city, people of different religions are being forced out of their h…

  

  Maysoon Pachachi / United Kingdom, France, Germany, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, 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

• Paris the White

  Spring Grant 2015 -

  Aicha married Nour in 1962, the year of Algerian independence. Later, Nour went to work in Fran…

  

  Lidia Terki / Algeria, France, Qatar / 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

• Plum Season

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Nouha, a 16-year-old teenager, lives in a close relationship with her mother. Her father reappe…

  

  Rim Mejdi / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Poisonous Roses

  Fall Grant 2015 -

  Twenty-eight-year-old Taheya works as a washroom cleaner, and lives with her 22-year-old brothe…

  

  Fawzi Saleh / Egypt, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Poster

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  A poster appears on the walls of the Palestinian village of Reith, accusing the local women of…

  

  Suha Arraf / Palestine, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Queens of Shadow

  Fall Grants 2020 - Development Stage

  As a young law student, Houria dares to file a complaint against her rapist. She ends up in pri…

  

  Aida Senna / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Railway Men

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  Conducting the trains of Line #1, the country's deadliest, five employees struggle with the dar…

  

  Erige Sehiri / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Red Path

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Two young shepherds, Nizar (16), and his cousin Achraf (14) are grazing their goats on a…

  

  Lotfi Achour / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Red Valentine

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Jad is a 30-year-old socialite who thinks he’s a poet. His family is pressuring him to take ove…

  

  Amin Matalqa / Jordan, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Rehana Maryam Noor

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  Rehana, a 37-year-old assistant professor in a private medical college, struggles to keep the h…

  

  Abdullah Mohammad Saad / Bangladesh, Singapore, 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

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