Fall Grant 2011
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1992, somewhere in Algeria. Omar and Othman, two boys from the same poor village, walk the seve…
Oussama Benhassine / Algeria, Qatar / Short Narrative
‘Bastardo’ is the story of Mohsen, ‘the bastard’, whose origins and history are unknown. He was…
Nejib Belkadhi / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative
This film will focus on the ‘fourth wave’ of Palestinian cinema, running from 1980 to the prese…
Tim Schwab / Palestine, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary
A creative documentary based on the powerful story of the Palestinian artist Zuhdi Al Adawi. IN…
Laila Hotait Salas / Lebanon, Spain, Qatar / Feature Documentary
In a border town set in an unnamed Arab country ruled by a ruthless dictatorship, Hana, a mothe…
Katia Jarjoura / Canada, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative
In 18 days, the January 25 Egyptian Revolution toppled a three-decade-old dictatorship and Egyp…
Tahani Rached / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Mustafa steals across the Israeli border with the help of a local smuggler. This is a one-way t…
Ehab Tarabieh / Syria, Qatar / Short Narrative
Many images... First: A woman looks at a book of pictures. She cries. 'Have you seen what they…
Sabine El Chamaa / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay
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
The filmmaker’s father spent 40 years as the director of a secular school he founded in Beirut’…
Nadine Naous / France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary
When filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige inadvertently discovered that their native…
Khalil Joreige, Joana Hadjithomas / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary
The director returns to the roots of his family’s history, starting from footage his parents fi…
Ivan Boccara / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Five young art students awake to the sound of gunfire and bombardment. As the electricity has b…
Nicolas Damuni / Palestine, France, Qatar / Short Narrative
An artist and painter in his 40s, Mo Bensalah is a Moroccan immigrant’s son. We see his essence…
Kamal El Mahouti / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative
‘My Love Awaits Me by the Sea’ is a poetic documentary that narrates the story of its director,…
Mais Darwazah / Jordan, Palestine, Qatar, Germany / Feature Documentary
Through the lives of the characters and their simple daily details, we discover together the do…
Sherif El Bendary / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Brahim and his family are of Moroccan descent, and live on the grounds of a crane construction…
Brahim Fritah / France, Qatar, Morocco / Feature Narrative
The Belmakis, an upper-middle-class family in France, appear to lead a trouble-free life; all,…
Karim Bensalah / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Narrative
New York-based imam Omar Metwally develops an unlikely friendship with the homeless teenager wh…
Faiza Ambah / Saudi Arabia, United States of America, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative
The Arab Spring erupted in a country where few would have expected, starting a political earthq…
Elyes Baccar / Tunisia, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary