• In this Land Lay Graves of Mine

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production/Post-Production Stage

  In 2009, I sold my land in my village in South Lebanon to a Muslim, stirring a sectarian discou…

  

  Reine Mitri / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Invasion

  Fall Grant 2013 - Post-Production Stage

  On the night of 20 December, 1989, the USA launched a massive invasion of otherwise peaceful Pa…

  

  Abner Benaim / Panama, Argentina, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Invented Biography

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Arturo Belano, alter ego of the writer Roberto Bolaño, shared with his creator a significant pa…

  

  Nicolás Lasnibat / France, Chile, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• It Comes By Night

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  When men turn up dead, the old folks whisper of the "aswang"—a shapeshifting beast from folklor…

  

  Alyx Ayn Arumpac / Philippines, France, Norway, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• It Snows at Sidi Bou Said

  Fall Grants 2020 -

  My relentless travels between Paris and Tunis provoke as many discussions with my children as q…

  

  Fatma Chérif / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Janitou

  Fall Grant 2015 -

  In Algeria in the mid-1980s, during a period of intense political and social unrest, the Bollyw…

  

  Amine Hattou / Algeria, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Jean Genet, Our Father Of Flowers

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  An anonymous grave in the middle of a cemetery with a view of the sea. We are in Larache, south…

  

  Dalila Ennadre / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Jordari Meno

  Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  Born and raised in Qatar—a small middle eastern country that developed from a fishing village t…

  

  Jamal Al-Khanji / Italy, Zanzibar, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Kashkash

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  In a region torn apart by tradition, modernity, war, geopolitical spheres of influence, migrati…

  

  Lea Najjar / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Land Of Women

  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

• The Last Hillbilly

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  In the Appalachian Mountains, east of Kentucky, people feel less American than Appalachian. The…

  

  Thomas Jenkoe, Diane Bouzgarrou / France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Lebanese Rocket Society

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  When filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige inadvertently discovered that their native…

  

  Khalil Joreige, Joana Hadjithomas / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Les Enfants Terribles

  Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  In Keskincik, a village situated near the Syrian border of Turkey, a young man, Mahmut wishes t…

  

  Ahmet Necdet Cupur / France, Germany, Turkey, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Listen to the Silence

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Nine years old and almost always smiling, Luka lives in a boarding school for deaf children, wh…

  

  Mariam Chachia / Georgia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Liyana

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Liyana is a young, fictional girl created by several young orphans in Swaziland, where the scou…

  

  Aaron Kopp, Amanda Kopp / Swaziland, Qatar, United States of America / Feature Documentary

• Looking for the Man with the Camera

  Spring Grant 2015 -

  "Looking for the Man with the Camera" is a journey that takes the narrator from Geneva to the…

  

  Boutheyna Bouslama / France, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Loving Wallada

  Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  Wallada, the only child of one of the last Umayyad caliphs, al-Mustakfi murdered in 1025, asser…

  

  Nacer Khemir / Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Machtat

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Fatma and her two daughters Najeh and Waffeh, live in the neighbourhood of Bir Beranek in Mahdi…

  

  Sonia Ben Slama / Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

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