• 5 Seasons of Revolution

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  An aspiring video journalist in her 20s finds herself already facing self-reckoning. Born in Da…

  

  Lina / Syria, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Ayouni

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Bassel was a successful open source developer and hacker in Damascus. Paolo was a well-known pr…

  

  Yasmin Fedda / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Beneath The Dunes

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Khalifa and Nasser are two cousins who have one bonding ritual: they camp out every weekend at…

  

  Mohammed Al Ibrahim / Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Black Veil

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Reem is a young Iraqi girl living in ISIS occupied Mosul. Her husband, an ISIS sympathizer, has…

  

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

• Ceuta's Gate

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Ceuta’s Gate is a series of reconstructed situations based on observations made on the border o…

  

  Randa Maroufi / Morocco, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Short Documentary

• Chaos

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  ‘Chaos’ narrates the story of three women in three cities – three women who have given up on li…

  

  Sara Fattahi / Syria, Austria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Constructions

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Pedro, an ageing security guard, patrols a deserted construction site in Córdoba, Argentina. Ac…

  

  Fernando Martín Restelli / Argentina, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Day I Lost My Shadow

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Sana is a young mother struggling to raise her eight-year-old child in war-torn Syria in 2012.…

  

  Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Dead Dog (working title)

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  When Farid, a 60-year-old man who lives abroad, visits his wife in their Lebanese mountain home…

  

  Sarah Francis / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Divine Wind

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Nour and Amine don’t know each other. They meet in a house, near the city of Timimoun, in the A…

  

  Merzak Allouache / Algeria, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Fifth Resurrection of Farid

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. An old man comes across an odd collection of film reels, vinyl recor…

  

  Khalid Youssef / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• The Healer

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  16-year old teenager Abdou lives on the outskirts of Khouribga, a mining town exploiting phosph…

  

  Mohamed Zineddaine / Morocco, Italy, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Hope

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Hévi and Walat, a Kurdish-Syrian refugee couple in their thirties meet a human trafficker. They…

  

  Mohammad Shaikhow / Syria, Iraq, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• I, Hummus

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  When I landed in Canada in 2006, I became recognized as a giant walking plate of hummus. Being…

  

  Rawane Nassif / Lebanon, Canada, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• The Invented Biography

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Arturo Belano, alter ego of the writer Roberto Bolaño, shared with his creator a significant pa…

  

  Nicolás Lasnibat / France, Chile, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Lemon Hart

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  In a story of how courage transcends fear, a young American girl living in Le Var, France refle…

  

  Sara Al-Thani / Qatar, France / Short Narrative

• The Load

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Vlada works as a truck driver during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporti…

  

  Ognjen Glavonić / Serbia, France, Croatia, Iran, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Made in Qatar at D’reesha Programme 2 - Beit Byoot

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Set in a dystopian dollhouse, little Jameela seeks the acceptance of two mean girls. But when s…

  

  Mayar Hamdan / Jordan, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Man Who Stole Banksy

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  In 2007, anonymous street artist and activist Banksy painted a number of politically divisive a…

  

  Marco Proserpio / United Kingdom, Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Mute

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  In 1960s Qatar, Mama Looloo lives alone as she builds a spaceship in the middle of her living r…

  

  Thamer Al-Thani / Qatar / Short Narrative

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