• The Maghrebim

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  The director returns to the roots of his family’s history, starting from footage his parents fi…

  

  Ivan Boccara / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Man Behind the Microphone

  Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Hedi Jouini is the most popular musical star in Tunisian history, known as the “Frank Sinatra o…

  

  Claire Belhassine / Tunisia, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Man Who Stole Banksy

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  In 2007, anonymous street artist and activist Banksy painted a number of politically divisive a…

  

  Marco Proserpio / United Kingdom, Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• A Man on Fire

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  The story of a man who was born and raised in a modest environment and aspired to be a superher…

  

  Ibrahim Harb / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Marriage Project

  Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  In southern Tehran, Ehsan House is an institute funded by private donators that has taken care…

  

  Atieh Attarzadeh, Hesam Eslami / Iran, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Matoub Lounès: The Story of a Legend

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  In the Berber-speaking world, Kabyle singer Matoub Lounès is a legend. Assassinated in 1998, he…

  

  Régine Abadia / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Memory Exercises

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Between 1954 and 1989, Paraguay suffered one of the longest dictatorships in Latin America: 35…

  

  Paz Encina / Paraguay, Argentina, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Merry Christmas, Yiwu

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Communist ideals have long lost their value in Yiwu, a city with 600 Christmas factories, in wh…

  

  Mladen Kovacevic / Serbia, Sweden, Germany, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Midnight Traveler

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee wi…

  

  Hassan Fazili / Afghanistan, United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Mohammad Saved from the Waters

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  After six years of dialysis and because he refused to accept a transplant, my brother Mohammad…

  

  Safaa Fathy / Egypt, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Mother of All Lies

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Asmae, a 28-year-old Moroccan woman filmmaker doesn’t have any pictures of herself as a child.…

  

  Asmae El Moudir / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You

  Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  The wastelands and crowded streets of an African country are traversed by a woman bearing a woo…

  

  Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese / Lesotho, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• My English Cousin

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  2001, Fahed reaches the UK his head filled with dreams. 2018, in the thrall of a mid-life crisi…

  

  Karim Sayad / Algeria, Switzerland, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• My Friend Gadhgadhi

  Fall Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  A few days after the assassination of left-wing Tunisian militant Chokri Belaïd in early 2013,…

  

  Rafik Omrani / Tunisia, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• My Love Awaits Me by the Sea

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  ‘My Love Awaits Me by the Sea’ is a poetic documentary that narrates the story of its director,…

  

  Mais Darwazah / Jordan, Palestine, Qatar, Germany / Feature Documentary

• My Uncle the "Terrorist"

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  When I was a child, there was a portrait of a man in our house. I never knew who he was; nobody…

  

  Elias Moubarak / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Naz (working title)

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  One of the most successful and entertaining sporting icons of the 1990s, Naseem Hamed’s unique…

  

  Omar El-Khairy, Ana Naomi de Sousa / Palestine, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Night and the Kid

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  The dim light of night covers a stony desert in Algeria. By the light of the moon, Faouzi, IIye…

  

  David Yon / France, Qatar, Morocco / Feature Documentary

• Nine Month War

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Twenty-four-year-old Jani lives in a small town in Western Ukraine, part of the minority Hungar…

  

  László Csuja / Hungary, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Nothingwood

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  About a hundred kilometres away from Kabul, Salim Shaheen, the most popular and prolific actor-…

  

  Sonia Kronlund / France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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