Fall Grant 2014
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Amid the attempt to revive a ‘new Silk Road’ between Europe and Asia, Azerbaijani men labour to…
Martin DiCicco / United States of America, Georgia, Qatar / Feature Documentary
When a Middle Eastern man kidnaps his sickly daughter, her mother recruits a dubious neighbour…
Nour Wazzi / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Short Narrative
Fifteen-year-old Maya works with her father on an isolated farm in the Philippines. While ventu…
Mikhail Red / Philippines, Qatar / Feature Narrative
When the war between the Myanmar army and the KIA broke out, the corporations fled the mines. H…
Midi Z / Myanmar, Taiwan, Qatar / Feature Documentary
A hot summer's day in the Gaza Strip. Today the electricity is on. Christine’s beauty salon is…
Mohammed (Arab) Abunasser, Ahmad (Tarazan) Abunasser / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative
After World War II, nearly 10,000 Malagasy soldiers travelled back to their island on a liner n…
Marie Clemence Andriamonta Paes / Madagascar, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Anne gives birth to her third child. Akira learns reading and writing while foraging for scrap…
Jewel Maranan / Philippines, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary
‘In the Future, They Ate from the Finest Porcelain’ resides in the cross-section of sci-fi, arc…
Larissa Sansour / Palestine, United Kingdom, Denmark, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay
Inseparable, if not by choice, two Sri Lankans work as cleaners at a mosque in Qatar. Lazy and…
Karem Kamel / Qatar / Short Narrative
Hedi Jouini is the most popular musical star in Tunisian history, known as the “Frank Sinatra o…
Claire Belhassine / Tunisia, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary
As ‘Mediterranea’ opens in Algeria, Ayiva and his friend Abas climb onto a truck packed to burs…
Jonas Carpignano / Italy, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative
A village by the Black Sea, far from Istanbul. When they play a game in which they sit on boys’…
Deniz Gamze Ergüven / Turkey, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative
Marcel, a worker in a French shoe factory, lives a simple life between family, fishing and the…
Walid Mattar / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative
‘Opening Doors’ tells the true story of Amna Mahmoud who, from her early childhood, dreamed of…
Nora Al-Subai / Qatar, Canada / Short Narrative
The only source of the food on the island is mermaid flesh. The only way to keep the food suppl…
Shahad Ameen / Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative
Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, war propaganda has been Iran’s largest industry. In the n…
Maryam Ebrahimi / Iran, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Fourteen-year-old J goes by the pronoun ‘They” and lives with their parents in the suburbs of C…
Anahita Ghazvinizadeh / Iran, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative
Marseille, 2014. Dozens of Armenian asylum seekers try to survive while waiting for their appli…
Tamara Stepanyan / Lebanon, Armenia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary
The war in Syria is drawing to an end, and the first reliable election stands on the ruins of t…
Bassam Chekhes / Syria, Netherlands, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative
When his father dies, anti-regime partisan Chandra must travel to his remote mountain village a…
Deepak Rauniyar / Nepal, United States of America, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative