• The Revolution

  Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  On 1 February 2021, a military coup in Myanmar overthrew the democratically elected government.…

  

  Min Min Hein / Myanmar, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

  Kinshasa, the capital city of 17 million people, is plunged into darkness and insecurity as its…

  

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

• Road Trip

  Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

  Khammar, a 72-year-old garage owner in Vaulx-en-Velin, a suburb of Lyon, considers his garage h…

  

  LINDA QIBAA / Morocco, France, 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

• She Was Not Alone

  Spring Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

  ‘She Was Not Alone’ is a film about the inner, poetic world of Fatima, an inspiring and indepen…

  

  Hussein Al-Asadi / Iraq, United States of America, Saudi Arabia, 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

  ‘Son of the Streets’ is a poignant and inspiring film that follows Khodor, a Palestinian child…

  

  Mohammed Almughanni / Palestine, Poland, 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

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