• Theft of Fire

  Fall Grants 2020 - Development Stage

  A failing museum and a career hampered by the Israeli Occupation push Naji, a struggling Palest…

  

  Amer Shomali / Palestine, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Those Who Watch Over

  Fall Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  An immigrant ceases to be a traveller when they decide to be buried in their host land. In the…

  

  Karima Saidi / Belgium, Qatar, France / Feature Documentary

• Trouble Magnet

  Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  Growing up in Germany with Palestinian roots, Ali, a dramatic teenager, grapples with a persist…

  

  Ahmad Saleh / Palestine, Germany, Jordan, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Tunis-Djerba

  Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  Since her father’s death, Alyssa (19) has become the caretaker of her depressed mother and litt…

  

  Amel Guellaty / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Under This Roof

  Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  Nadim Asmar’s celebration rally of his presidential candidacy is interrupted when seventy-year-…

  

  Areej Mahmoud / Lebanon / TV Series

• Vanishing

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  In modern-day Beirut, single mother Rita juggles her work as an investigative journalist with t…

  

  Lucien Bourjeily / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Walou

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  I hate the bled! When I was young, every summer, going to Algeria, I couldn’t do anything witho…

  

  Hassiba Belhadj / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• Weedestine

  Fall Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  In Palestine’s “Area C,” an unpoliced fractured zone, marijuana cultivation is thriving due to…

  

  Said Zagha / Palestine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Sweden / Feature Narrative

• What Brings You Here?

  Spring Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  Rashid finds himself lost in the desert among the dunes, where he finds a strange object buried…

  

  Abdulla Alemadi / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Where Did I Leave My Face?

  Fall Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Ali, originally from Jerusalem, lives in Paris with his girlfriend, Julie. He is constantly tra…

  

  Ramzi Maqdisi / Palestine, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Why Did the Bluesman Cross the Road?

  Fall Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  At a car dealership in Santa Monica, California, Ernesto and Jamal are hardworking mechanics by…

  

  Meedo Taha / United States of America, Lebanon, Qatar / TV Series

• Window

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Baghdad under the American occupation. Iraq is in a power vacuum; anarchy is rife; curfews are…

  

  Koutaiba Al-Janabi / Iraq, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Woman I Never Called Mum

  Fall Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  Because I was born out of wedlock, my birth was kept secret initially. I was raised by my aunt…

  

  Sabrina Idiri Chemloul / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Wooden Rifle

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  During the Syrian revolution, 21-year-old Noor tries to escape with his mother to Europe to liv…

  

  Alfouz Tanjour / Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• X Kids

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  X kids are children born in Algeria out of wedlock, or as a result of terrorist marriages, ince…

  

  Safinez Bousbia / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Yalla Parkour

  Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  Now that his return is unattainable, Ahmad reflects on his undetermined journey out. Despite th…

  

  Areeb Zuaiter / Sweden, Jordan / Feature Documentary

• 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

• Yasmine/Jasmine

  Spring Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  'Yasmine/Jasmine' is a one-hour limited series centring on Jasmine (24), a first-generation imm…

  

  Yossera Bouchtia / United States of America, Morocco, Qatar / TV Series

• You Don't Die Two Times

  Fall Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Jenny and Gift, two sisters respectively 22 and 28 years old, are in North Niger, waiting to tr…

  

  Ager Oueslati / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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