Fall Grants 2023
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Agadez, 2021. Following the ban on unlawful migrant transportation by the Niger government, fou…
Karim Sayad / Algeria, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary
A magical realist tale inspired by local Arabian Gulf mythology and set in Khaleeji modernism.…
Hamida Issa / Qatar, Saudi Arabia / Feature Narrative
In 1989, Mahmoud Mortada, Bassams father, was arrested, imprisoned and tortured at the infamous…
Bassam Mortada / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary
A patriarch, Tahar: Indochina war, psychiatric hospitals. A grandmother, Taklit: marriage, exil…
Soufiane Adel / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary or Essay
The blind ferryman Ayoub lives with his mother and religious brother in the Iraqi marshes. He a…
Ali Al-Fatlawi / Iraq, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative
Chum-Chum, a nine-year-old dreamy street kid with diabetes, and his best friend, Moody, a tough…
Mohamed Al-daradji / Iraq, United Arab Emirates, France, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative
Amal Jawadat believes she’s finally getting the happy ending she’s always dreamed of. A Palesti…
Ihab Jadallah / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative
In the desert town of Bab El Sahra in North Africa, Gendarmerie Commander Hamid El Saber faces…
Salem Brahimi / Algeria, France, Saudi Arabia, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative
It all begins in the 1980s in Wattrelos, in northern France. Ghalia is an 18-year-old Algerian…
Samia Dzaïr / Algeria, France, Qatar / TV Series
In Samegrelo, a Georgian region near the disputed Abkhazian state, a family of four struggles i…
Elene Mikaberidze / Georgia, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Mijo lives with his family in a poor village in the rural part of Croatia. By witnessing a crue…
Bruno Anković / Croatia, Qatar / Feature Narrative
'Civilization of Equality' is a short, stop-motion animated musical reflecting true equality’s…
Ibrahim Albuainain / Qatar / Short Narrative
55-year-old Demba is about to retire after 30 years of service at the city hall in his small to…
Mamadou Dia / Senegal, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative
Madagascar, nowadays. Twenty-year-old Kwame struggles to make a living in the clandestine sapph…
Luck Razanajaona / Madagascar, France, Mauritius, Germany, South Africa, Qatar / Feature Narrative
Qamichli, Syria, 2004. Mesto, a 17-year-old boy, has but one dream—to join his city's football…
Mohammad Alchikho "Shaikhow" / Syria, France, Belgium, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative
A group of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa arrives to the north of Morocco in order to cross t…
Alaa Eddine Aljem / Morocco, France, Italy, Qatar / Feature Narrative
When the grandfather of Rana, an ocean-loving and excitable 10-year-old, passes away, so does t…
Maryam Mir / Bahrain, USA, Qatar / Short Narrative
Shadi, a Palestinian activist turned French citizen, returns to Wadi Rahal in occupied Palestin…
Maxime Lindon / France, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Documentary
After leaving their homes, trying to escape their conservative societies, and in pursuit of bas…
Rama Abdi / Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary
In the fictitious city of Beirut lives Viola, a musician and the leader of an underground movem…
Feyrouz Serhal / Lebanon, Spain, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative