• Perhaps What I Fear Does Not Exist

  Spring Grants 2019 -

  “I can’t believe this is happening”, I said to myself when my father’s body failed unexpectedly…

  

  Corine Shawi / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Plum Season

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Nouha, a 16-year-old teenager, lives in a close relationship with her mother. Her father reappe…

  

  Rim Mejdi / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Road to Damascus

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Based on Meedo’s novel of the same title. A bus carrying immigrant farmers is gunned down just…

  

  Meedo Taha / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Searching For Kikhia (working Title)

  Spring Grants 2019 -

  When director Jihan Kikhia was six years old, her father disappeared. He flew to Cairo and neve…

  

  Jihan Kikhia / Libya, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• A Son

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Tunisia, Summer 2011. Fares, Meriem, and their 10-year-old son Aziz are a modern and happy Tuni…

  

  Mehdi Barsaoui / Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• South Terminal

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  In a Mediterranean country descending into insecurity and armed conflict, a doctor strives to d…

  

  Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche / France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Stranger

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production, Production, Production Stage

  After spending unfruitful years studying medicine in the former Soviet Union, Adnan decided to…

  

  Ameer Fakher Eldin / Syria, Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Temporarily

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Reham is a 24-year-old Syrian girl who studied acting in Syria. Because of the war there, she m…

  

  Reham Alkassar / Germany, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• The Body Of René

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  'The Body of René' is a love story interrupted by war and a black body snatched from the memory…

  

  Dani Abo Louh / France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Names Of The Flowers

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  As Bolivia stages the 50th anniversary of the death of “great Che Guevara”, Julia an old countr…

  

  Bahman Tavoosi / Canada, United States of America, Bolivia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Present

  Spring Grants 2019 -

  Yusef is a family man from the West Bank, battling enormous queues at dawn to get to work every…

  

  Farah Nabulsi / Palestine, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Woodman

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  A surreal feature film with a thriller theme, and a life-sized wooden dummy as the protagonist,…

  

  Koutaiba Al-Janabi / Iraq, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• This Is Not A Drill

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  In the wake of a radioactive blast, a young and pregnant couple, Maya and Malik follow instruct…

  

  Nadia Al-Khater / Qatar / Short Narrative

• To Live To Sing

  Spring Grants 2019 -

  Zhao Li is the manager of a small Sichuan Opera troupe of 11 members living and performing toge…

  

  Johnny Ma / China, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Watch Before Deletion

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  An episode of a radio show revisiting the life of an Arab music icon takes an unexpected turn w…

  

  Mohammad Shawky Hassan / Egypt, Germany, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Who Do I Belong To

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Aicha, a Tunisian mother gifted with prophetic dreams, lives in a rural farm with her husband B…

  

  Meryam Joobeur / Tunisia, France, Canada, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Yalla, Baba!

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  In 1980, 32-year-old Mansour travelled to Belgium with his friends, bought cars, and set off on…

  

  Angie Obeid / Belgium, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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