• A Rifle and a Bag

  Fall Grants 2019 -

  Somi and her husband Sukhram met and fell in love while fighting in the Naxalite commando, the…

  

  Cristina Hanes, Arya Rothe, Isabella Rinaldi / India, Romania, Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Rise of the Gulf / Beyond Black Gold

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Two films to tell the incredible tale of the metamorphosis of the Gulf’s emirates over the cour…

  

  Frédéric Compain / France, Qatar, Kuwait / Feature Documentary

• Rising up at Night

  Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  As the Democratic Republic of Congo relaunches its plans to build Africa’s largest power plant…

  

  Nelson Makengo / Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Belgium, Germany, Burkina Faso, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Roshmia

  Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Since 1956, when he became a refugee from downtown Haifa’s Wadi Alsaleeb neighbourhood, 80-year…

  

  Salim Abu Jabal / Palestine, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Rouge Parole

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  The Arab Spring erupted in a country where few would have expected, starting a political earthq…

  

  Elyes Baccar / Tunisia, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Salaam Plenty

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  'Salaam Plenty' is about the memory and erasure of the presence of Afghan cameleers in Australi…

  

  Samira (Yasmine) Kassari / Morocco, Australia, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Samir in the Dust

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  I always liked smugglers because they are playing with borders. But, I soon realized that the o…

  

  Mohamed Ouzine / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Scenes from a Revolt Sustained

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Examining the culture and history of Tunisia and how it has been mediated or ignored by the Wes…

  

  Kays Mejri, Matt Peterson / France, Tunisia, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• School of Hope

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  In the vast expanse of desert, East of Atlas Mountains in Morocco, seasonal rain and snow once…

  

  Mohamed El Aboudi / Finland, France, Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Searching For Kikhia (working Title)

  Spring Grants 2019 -

  When director Jihan Kikhia was six years old, her father disappeared. He flew to Cairo and neve…

  

  Jihan Kikhia / Libya, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Siren of Faso Fani

  Fall Grant 2013 -

  Through the eyes of former workers at the once-famous cotton factory in Burkina Faso, ‘The Sire…

  

  Michel K. Zongo / Burkina Faso, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Sleepless nights

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Two people irrevocably changed by war come together in ‘Confession and Struggle,’ an unflinchin…

  

  Eliane Raheb / Lebanon, France, United Arab Emirates, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Somebody Clap for Me

  Fall Grant 2012 -

  This poetic rollercoaster ride chronicles Ugandan youth reclaiming their right to a voice by br…

  

  Luciana Ceccatto Farah / Brazil, Uganda, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Son of the Streets

  Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  Following the life of the Palestinian child, Khodor, from the age of fourteen to eighteen as he…

  

  Mohammed Almughanni / Palestine, Lebanon, Poland, Ukraine, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Souraya Mon Amour (Working Title)

  Fall Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  Excerpts from the film 'Little Wars', an old correspondence, and other family and personal arch…

  

  Nicolas Khoury / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Speak So I Can See You

  Fall Grants 2018 -

  Set at the intersection of an observational documentary and an audio-visual experiment, this fi…

  

  Marija Stojnic / Serbia, Croatia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Speed Sisters

  Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Meet Marah, Mona, Betty, Noor and Maysoon – the first all-woman rally-racing team in the Middle…

  

  Amber Fares / Palestine, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Still Recording

  Fall Grants 2016 -

  Two young artists, Saeed Al Batal and Ghiath Ayoub become embroiled in the events of the besieg…

  

  Saeed Al Batal, Ghiath Ayoub / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Stronger than a Bullet

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, war propaganda has been Iran’s largest industry. In the n…

  

  Maryam Ebrahimi / Iran, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Suspended

  Spring Grants 2021 - Production Stage

  For many years now, Lebanon has been crumbling under the burden of corruption and a past it has…

  

  Myriam El Hajj / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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