• Red Valentine

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Jad is a 30-year-old socialite who thinks he’s a poet. His family is pressuring him to take ove…

  

  Amin Matalqa / Jordan, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Rehana Maryam Noor

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  Rehana, a 37-year-old assistant professor in a private medical college, struggles to keep the h…

  

  Abdullah Mohammad Saad / Bangladesh, Singapore, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Return

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Taysir, a historian in his fifties, has settled in the French city of Marseille with his wife M…

  

  Meyar Al-Roumi / France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Return Of The Prodigal Son

  Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  Cairo 2009. Back from the army, Salem, 25, joins his family in Cairo’s rag-picking district, ho…

  

  Rani Massalha / Egypt, Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Return to Seoul

  Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  On an impulse to reconnect with her origins, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first…

  

  Davy Chou / France, Germany, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Reverence for Spiders

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  New York-based imam Omar Metwally develops an unlikely friendship with the homeless teenager wh…

  

  Faiza Ambah / Saudi Arabia, United States of America, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Rey

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  In 1860, a 35-year-old Frenchman explores Araucania, an autonomous region of southern Chile. Th…

  

  Niles Atallah / Chile, France, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Riverbed

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Riverbed tells the story of Salma and her returning daughter Thuraya, and their attempt to pres…

  

  Bassem Breche / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Road to Damascus

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Based on Meedo’s novel of the same title. A bus carrying immigrant farmers is gunned down just…

  

  Meedo Taha / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Road to La Paz

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Thirty-five-year-old Sebastián’s greatest passions are his old Peugeot 505 and the prog-rock ba…

  

  Francisco Varone / Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Road to Mosul

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Mosul, 2014. Ten-year-old Zaineb and her 14-year-old brother, Yousif escape after ISIS militia…

  

  Yahya Al Allaq / Iraq, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Rooftops

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Algiers. An overcrowded city with endless traffic jams, chaotic crowds, rundown buildings, old…

  

  Merzak Allouache / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Roqia

  Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  In 1993, after a car crash leaves Ahmed with amnesia, he returns to his village, where not…

  

  Yanis Koussim / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Saffron's Land

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  In the Atlas Mountains lies Safrana, an isolated village that was repeatedly attacked by the Fr…

  

  Yassine El Idrissi / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Sahaab

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Following his brother’s death, Nasser and his friend Sanad decide to participate in a falcon ra…

  

  Khalifa Abdullah Al Muraikhi / Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Sanctorum

  Fall Grants 2018 -

  In a small town plagued by a war between the army and drug traffickers, a child has lost his mo…

  

  Joshua Gil / Mexico, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Scales

  Fall Grant 2014 - Development Stage

  The only source of the food on the island is mermaid flesh. The only way to keep the food suppl…

  

  Shahad Ameen / Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Screwdriver

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Young Ziad is the star of the Jalazon Refugee Camp basketball team in Palestine. When his best…

  

  Bassam Jarbawi / Palestine, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Sea Ahead

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  A young woman walks out of the Beirut airport alone and makes her way back home to her parents’…

  

  Ely Dagher / Lebanon, France, Belgium, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Search for the Star Pearl

  Fall Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  Ali ibn Hamad, a brave, 17-year-old Qatari boy, sails the unknown seas with his friends, the fu…

  

  Hafiz Ali Ali / Qatar / Feature Narrative

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