• '81

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  When tasked by officials to pursue entry into the 1981 FIFA Youth World Championships in Austra…

  

  Dawood Al-Anwari, Ali Al Anssari / Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 143 Sahara Street

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Malika lives alone in the middle of the desert. There she runs a small restaurant serving two d…

  

  Hassen Ferhani / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 7 KM - Seven Kilometers

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  1992, somewhere in Algeria. Omar and Othman, two boys from the same poor village, walk the seve…

  

  Oussama Benhassine / Algeria, Qatar / Short Narrative

• 7 Waves

  Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  A magical realist tale inspired by local Arabian Gulf mythology and set in Khaleeji modernism.…

  

  Hamida Issa / Qatar, Saudi Arabia / Feature Narrative

• After Tahar

  Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  A patriarch, Tahar: Indochina war, psychiatric hospitals. A grandmother, Taklit: marriage, exil…

  

  Soufiane Adel / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary or Essay

• Al Zubara

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Taking place in Qatar 150 years into the future, Jassim Mohammed, driven by revenge since the a…

  

  Hamad Al Mansouri / Qatar / TV Series

• Al-Dana

  Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

  1752, Al-Dana is a woman in a man’s world where Pearl Diving is the only way of life. Her grand…

  

  Nora Al-Subai / Qatar / Feature Narrative

• All this Victory

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  In a small village in the south of Lebanon, during the last days of the July War, five people t…

  

  Ahmad Ghossein / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Asphalt

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  'Asphalt' delves into the lives of two truck drivers on the road, crossing borders, towns and c…

  

  Ali Hammoud / Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Autumn

  Spring Grants 2022 - Development Stage

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

  

  Aisha Al-Jaidah / Qatar, Iran / Short Narrative

• Awdah

  Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  Amal Jawadat believes she’s finally getting the happy ending she’s always dreamed of. A Palesti…

  

  Ihab Jadallah / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Bab El Sahra

  Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  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

• Badr on the Moon

  Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

  ‘Badr on the Moon’ follows Badr, a curious young boy living with his parents on a moon colony.…

  

  Aisha Al-Jaidah, Kholoud Al Ali / Jordan, Qatar / TV Series

• Before the Day Breaks

  Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

  Nour is a Pakistani heavyweight truck driver in his thirties who lives in Qatar, miles away fro…

  

  Amal Al-Muftah / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Behind Closed Doors

  Fall Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  ‘Behind Closed Doors’ is a portrait of a farming family living in one of the most marginalised…

  

  Yakout Elhababi / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Behind Closed Doors

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Six-year-old Leila and her mother, Sara, have a close relationship. They live a comfortable lif…

  

  Hend Fakhroo / Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Beirut 1931

  Fall Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  “K.” arrives in his native Jaffa after the disappearance of “M.” Like a lurking shadow, “M.” wo…

  

  Kamal Aljafari / Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Beretta

  Fall Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  Suad, a mute Egyptian woman, is constantly harassed by the old men of Cairo and one day decides…

  

  Sophia Al-Maria / Qatar, Egypt, United Arab Emirates / Feature Narrative

• Big Boys Don't Cry

  Spring Grants 2020 - Development Stage

  Yehia, a 35-year-old bodyguard, embodies a hyper-masculine image of power and violence. After h…

  

  Muhammad Mustapha / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Blue Wedding

  Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  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

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