Spring Grants 2020
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Inspired by a short story from Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, Aleph is a creative docume…
Iva Radivojević / United States of America, Croatia, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay
After a long night’s shift, Amparo, a single mother of two, returns home to find her children a…
Simon Mesa Soto / Colombia, Sweden, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative
In Venice between the gondolas, canals and palaces, tourists pour in as residents head out. Loc…
Yuri Ancarani / Italy, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Yehia, a 35-year-old bodyguard, embodies a hyper-masculine image of power and violence. After h…
Muhammad Mustapha / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Fahd, a 23-year-old Qatari man, sees no meaning for his life. He is always pessimistic and has…
Ali Al-Sulaiti / Qatar / Feature Narrative
‘The Closet Sessions’ concept existed ever since hip-hop artist and director Ahmad “Satti” Ibra…
Ahmad Ibrahim / Jordan, Qatar / Web Series
The writer Kamel Daoud is one of a kind. His words unleash passions, acerbic polemics and conde…
Sidahmed Semiane / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Rojin is about to sit her university entrance exam. If she fails, her father will force her to…
Shawkat Amin Korki / Iraq, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative
Freda lives with her mother, sister and little brother in a popular neighbourhood of Haiti. The…
Gessica Généus / Haiti, Benin, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative
Gaza, today. Sixty-year-old fisherman Issa is secretly in love with Siham, a woman who works as…
Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser / Palestine, France, Germany, Portugal, Qatar / Feature Narrative
İffet, a single mother in her 40s, lives in Sucular, a ghetto fighting against urban regenerati…
Azra Deniz Okyay / Turkey, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative
Guled and Nasra are a loving couple living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage…
Khadar Ayderus Ahmed / Finland, Somalia, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative
In the suburbs of Casablanca, Hassan and Issam, father and son, live from day to day by carryin…
Kamal Lazraq / France, Morocco, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative
Twenty-eight years ago, when Rachida was just 16, her father forced her to marry a Moroccan man…
Rachida El Garani / Morocco, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Moshe and Elza, an Israeli couple, are awoken by the cries of their 6-year-old girl, Edina, who…
Rakan Mayasi / Palestine, Belgium, Qatar, France / Short Narrative
The French take Lebanon over from the Ottoman Empire and decide to flood a village in order to…
Daniel Joseph / Lebanon, France, Georgia, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative
In an impoverished and patriarchal Egyptian village by the Nile, seven teenage girls rebel by f…
Nada Riyadh / Egypt, France, Denmark / Feature Documentary
Fadi is a volunteer accompanied by Iraqi Forces. He lost communication with his family once ISI…
Muhannad Al Sudany / Iraq, Qatar / Short Narrative
In the Appalachian Mountains, east of Kentucky, people feel less American than Appalachian. The…
Thomas Jenkoe, Diane Bouzgarrou / France, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Northern Lebanon, summer of 1958—in a small village in the ancient Christian Qadisha Valley, ma…
Carlos Chahine / France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative