• Go Home

  Fall Grant 2011 -

  Nada is going home. Or at least she wants to. When she returns to Lebanon, she realises she's a…

  

  Jihane Chouaib / Lebanon, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Grandma

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Sarah, a teenager, lives with Marta – her grandmother – and her younger sister in Byblos. The f…

  

  Merva Faddoul / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Hitch 60 (working title)

  Spring Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  Two mod girls from South-East London embark on a journey across continents, travelling away fro…

  

  Sara Al Obaidly / Qatar, United Kingdom, Turkey / Feature Documentary

• Home There..Cinema Here

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  An abandoned movie theatre. Sound and image buried in dust. A waft of light spills over broken…

  

  Nidal Al Dibs / Egypt, Qatar, Syria / Feature Documentary

• Horseed

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Basketball, one of the oldest and most popular games among Somali women, is now an endangered s…

  

  Hana Mire / Somalia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Sweden, Congo, Republic of, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• I Am Afraid To Forget Your Face

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  After being separated for 2 months, Adam travels down a rough road to be reunited, whatever it…

  

  Sameh Morsy / Egypt, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• In The Middle

  Spring Grants 2019 -

  In a rarely seen perspective of war, we follow Ali—a Yemeni soldier on tour in the temporary ca…

  

  Mariam Al-Dhubhani / Yemen, Qatar / Short Documentary

• Jet Set Arabia

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  In ‘Jet Set Arabia’, we will follow along on the journey of what it takes to become a contempor…

  

  Abdulla Al-Abdulla, Basel Owies / Qatar / TV Series

• Joint Possession

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Tangier topography is in turmoil. Pharaonic real estate projects surround the Mansouria, a land…

  

  Leila Kilani / Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Kashta

  Fall Grants 2016 -

  Out in the beautiful quiet of the windswept dunes, a man teaches his young sons the traditional…

  

  A.J. Al-Thani / Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Last Hillbilly

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  In the Appalachian Mountains, east of Kentucky, people feel less American than Appalachian. The…

  

  Thomas Jenkoe, Diane Bouzgarrou / France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Let’s Play Soldiers

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  War does not only destroy livelihoods and infrastructure, but it also affects the upcoming gene…

  

  Mariam Al-Dhubhani / Yemen, Qatar / Short Documentary

• Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege

  Spring Grants 2019 -

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

  

  Abdullah Al Khateeb / Lebanon, France, Syria, 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

• 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

• O My Body!

  Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  Seeking to bridge Mediterranean cultures, choreographer Abou Lagraa and his wife, dancer Nawal…

  

  Laurent Aït Benalla / France, Qatar, Morocco / Feature Documentary

• Of Sheep and Men

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Bab el Oued, Algiers, 2016. Men and sheep. Sixteen-year-old Habib dreams of becoming a veterina…

  

  Karim Sayad / Algeria, Switzerland, 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

• 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

• 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

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