• BEFORE THE DAY BREAKS

  Fall Grants 2024 - Production Stage

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

  

  Amal Al-Muftah / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Baby Mine

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  When a Middle Eastern man kidnaps his sickly daughter, her mother recruits a dubious neighbour…

  

  Nour Wazzi / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Bastardo

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  ‘Bastardo’ is the story of Mohsen, ‘the bastard’, whose origins and history are unknown. He was…

  

  Nejib Belkadhi / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Before the Dying of the Light

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  The seventies were the last Moroccan period in which struggles and dreams for change were a rea…

  

  Abdelali Essafi / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Behind Closed Doors

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Qatar. Six-year-old Leila wakes up one morning and finds out that her mother, Sara, is gone. Le…

  

  Hend Fakhroo / Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Behind the Wall

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  ‘Behind the Wall’ is the story of Nadia, an over-protected five-year-old girl who lives in a Ca…

  

  Karima Zoubir / Morocco, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Beirut Hold'em

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Fresh out of prison, Ziko is ready to start a new life. Determined to win back Carole, the love…

  

  Michel Kammoun / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Bel Falastini

  Fall Grants 2024 - Production Stage

  Jamil Atrash was born in a refugee camp in the 1950s. Throughout his life, he built a successfu…

  

  Obada Jarbi / Jordan, Qatar / Short Documentary

• The Bird's Placebo

  Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  After his legs are amputated while trying to cross the Mediterranean, Yahya, a young Tunisian m…

  

  Rami Jarboui / Tunisia, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Black Veil

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Many women around the world suffer under oppression and dream of escaping it. ‘The Black Veil’…

  

  A.J. Al Johara Al Thani / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Blessed Benefit

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Ahmad, a construction worker, gets tangled up in an unfortunate business deal that lands him in…

  

  Mahmoud Al Massad / Jordan, Netherlands, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Bombay Rose

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Escaping from child marriage, Kamala makes flower garlands to sell on the streets of Bombay dur…

  

  Gitanjali Rao / India, France, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Born in the Maelstrom

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Inspired by the novel ‘Naissance de Rebecca à l’ère des tourments’ by Québécoise author Marie-C…

  

  Meryam Joobeur / Tunisia, Canada, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Boss

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Five boys from a small village lose their football field and swimming pool to the Tigers, a gan…

  

  Rzgar Huseein Ahmed / Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Short Narrative

• A Brighter Tomorrow

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Mehdi, Thibault and M’Barek are three thugs based in Aubervilliers. Mehdi, 30, lives alone with…

  

  Yassine Qnia / France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Brink of Dreams

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  In an impoverished and patriarchal Egyptian village by the Nile, seven teenage girls rebel by f…

  

  Nada Riyadh / Egypt, France, Denmark / Feature Documentary

• Burning Birds

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  1989. A small village in eastern Sri Lanka. After her husband is abducted, tortured and murdere…

  

  Sanjeewa Pushpakumara / Sri Lanka, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• By the Time It Gets Dark

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  By the Time It Gets Dark’ tells the interwoven stories of several characters: a film director a…

  

  Anocha Suwichakornpong / Thailand, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Cactus Flower

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Aida, a struggling actress, came to Cairo from the Delta as a university student; like many oth…

  

  Hala Elkoussy / Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Chained Prey

  Spring Grants 2021 - Production Stage

  An Indian falcon, Raja, lives in the Arabian Gulf with his falconer, Sultan. While Raja has mor…

  

  Esmail Zalat / Egypt, Qatar / Short Narrative

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