• Horseed

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Basketball, one of the oldest and most popular games among Somali women, is now an endangered s…

  

  Hana Mire / Somalia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Sweden, Congo, Republic of, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• House No. 7

  Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  After leaving their homes, trying to escape their conservative societies, and in pursuit of bas…

  

  Rama Abdi / Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• House in the Fields

  Fall Grants 2016 -

  This evocative documentary presents life in an isolated Amazigh village in Morocco's High Atlas…

  

  Tala Hadid / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• I Am One of Them

  Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  At the lake of a small town, Grzegorz makes a living by guiding tourist cruises on his boat, on…

  

  Nadim Suleiman / Poland, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• I Used to Sleep on the Rooftop

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Nuhad, a 53-year-old Syrian woman, had never left Syria until the war made her reconsider her e…

  

  Angie Obeid / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Ibrahim, a Fate to Define

  Fall Grant 2015 -

  Ibrahim Alabed, my father, was a secret member of the Revolutionary Council, a Palestinian mili…

  

  Lina Alabed / Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• In The House Of My Father

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  Twenty-eight years ago, when Rachida was just 16, her father forced her to marry a Moroccan man…

  

  Rachida El Garani / Morocco, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• In The Name Of Safia

  Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  An unfinished interview with my father, Tayeb Kessas, in February 2019, just before his death,…

  

  Safia Kessas / Algeria, Belgium, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• In the Claws of a Century Wanting

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Anne gives birth to her third child. Akira learns reading and writing while foraging for scrap…

  

  Jewel Maranan / Philippines, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• In the Shade of a Royal Palace (Dwellers of the Cabins)

  Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  Through her relationship with her musician father, Hend tries to discover the history of her pe…

  

  Hend Bakr / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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 - Production Stage

  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

• Jodari 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, David Ochoa / Qatar, Italy, Zanzibar / Feature Documentary

• Jump the Wall

  Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  A filmmaker has come to Sweden to present his film 'The Healer'. He receives a surprising call…

  

  Mohamed Zineddaine / Morocco, Spain, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Just Like a Dream

  Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

  On August 4th, 2020, Beirut experienced one of history's largest explosions, resulting in over…

  

  Corine Shawi / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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