• Across the Sea

  Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  Nour, 27, has emigrated illegally to Marseille where and his friends are living off petty crime…

  

  Saïd Hamich Benlarbi / France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Aisha Can’t Fly Away Anymore

  Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  Aisha, a 26-year-old Somali woman, works as a caregiver for elderly patients. She lives in a ne…

  

  Morad Mostafa / Egypt, France, Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Autumn

  Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  'Autumn' is a conceptual romantic narrative of the captivity of the intellectual class in the t…

  

  Aisha Al-Jaidah / Iran, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Aïcha

  Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  How far can we go to break free from our past? Twenty-eight-year-old Aya is an ordinary youn…

  

  Mehdi M. Barsaoui / France, Tunisia, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Back to Alexandria

  Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  After twenty years of absence, Sue must return to her native Egypt to see her mother, Fairouz,…

  

  Tamer Ruggli / Switzerland, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Banel & Adama

  Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. The young married couple lives in a remote village in nor…

  

  Ramata-Toulaye Sy / France, Senegal, Mali, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• City of Wind

  Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  Ze is a timid 17-year-old shaman. He studies hard at school to succeed in the cold, callous soc…

  

  Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir / France, Mongolia, Portugal, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Day I Smoked a Cigarette with My Father

  Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  Cairo, 1964. Alaa, a 12-year-old boy, and his three younger siblings hear shouting from the str…

  

  Sameh Alaa / Egypt, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Dyouf

  Spring Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  After he is expelled from film school, Shadi moves back in with his parents in their Bedouin vi…

  

  Saleh Saadi / Palestine, Qatar / TV Series

• East of Noon

  Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  In the ruins of an industrial complex outside time, Shawky (70), an eccentric showman, rules wi…

  

  Hala Elkoussy / Netherlands, Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Excursion

  Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  IMAN (15) and her class are planning their end of primary school excursion. While their parents…

  

  Una Gunjak / Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, France, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Experiment

  Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  Rashid, a 30-year-old researcher, is placed in a prison to conduct his final project. His missi…

  

  Abdulla Alhor / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Halaa'

  Spring Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  An anthology series of Middle Eastern crime stories exploring the complex moral ironies surroun…

  

  Amal Al-Muftah / Lebanon, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Qatar / TV Series

• The House That My Mother Built

  Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  While the Sudanese revolution’s defeats and victories were mainly captured and seen from outsid…

  

  Alyaa Musa / Sudan, Qatar / Web Series

• I Am One of Them

  Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  At the lake of a small town, Grzegorz makes a living by guiding tourist cruises on his boat, on…

  

  Nadim Suleiman / Poland, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Kohl & Cardamom

  Spring Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  In a small Egyptian town in the late 1980s, Abdullah (14 years old) leads what seems to be a ca…

  

  Fady Atallah / Egypt, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Language of Fire

  Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  It was night inside of me. Somewhere in the world, my being was torn in two. One was searching…

  

  Tarek Sami / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Lost Country

  Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  Serbia, 1996. During the student demonstrations against Milosević’s regime, 15-year-old Stefan…

  

  Vladimir Perišić / France, Serbia, Luxembourg, Croatia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• L’mina

  Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  The film is set in Jerada, a former mining town in northeast Morocco that experienced its golde…

  

  Randa Maroufi / France, Morocco, Italy, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• No Reaching Hand

  Spring Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  In a mysterious realm, disconnected from any specific time and place, we delve into Mariam's jo…

  

  Batla Aldosari / Qatar / Short Narrative

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