• Whispering Sands

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  A Canadian woman of Arab descent undertakes a trip and hires a guide to help her find a specifi…

  

  Nacer Khemir / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• White Sun

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  When his father dies, anti-regime partisan Chandra must travel to his remote mountain village a…

  

  Deepak Rauniyar / Nepal, United States of America, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Who Do I Belong To

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Aicha lives a quiet, secluded life with her husband and youngest son in a remote village in nor…

  

  Meryam Joobeur / Tunisia, France, Canada, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Wind Blew On

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  “Perhaps I’m already dead?” says the child, and no one will confirm if this is true or false. H…

  

  Katrín Ólafsdóttir / Iceland, Qatar, Spain, France, Chile / Feature Narrative

• Window

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Baghdad under the American occupation. Iraq is in a power vacuum; anarchy is rife; curfews are…

  

  Koutaiba Al-Janabi / Iraq, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Winter Within

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  In Srinagar, Kashmir, Nargis works as a domestic helper for a middle-class family. Her husband,…

  

  Aamir Bashir / India, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Wooden Rifle

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  During the Syrian revolution, 21-year-old Noor tries to escape with his mother to Europe to liv…

  

  Alfouz Tanjour / Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Wooden Rifle

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  During the Syrian revolution, 21-year-old Noor tries to escape with his mother to Europe to liv…

  

  Alfouz Tanjour / Syria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Wounded Angel

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Four loosely connected stories set in a small town in Kazakhstan at the beginning of the 90s, a…

  

  Emir Baigazin / Kazakhstan, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• X Kids

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  X kids are children born in Algeria out of wedlock, or as a result of terrorist marriages, ince…

  

  Safinez Bousbia / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• You Have The Night

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  After losing her job as a hostess aboard a ship, Sanja finds herself stranded, with nowhere to…

  

  Ivan Salatic / Montenegro, Serbia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• You Will Die at Twenty

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  In a Sudanese village, a mother gives birth to Muzamel, a boy cursed by a Dervish prophecy that…

  

  Amjad Abu Alala / Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Yunan

  Spring Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  Munir is a gloomy and disillusioned man who travels from Hamburg to a remote island in the Nort…

  

  Ameer Fakher Eldin / Syria, Germany, France, Palestine, Italy, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Yunan

  Spring Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

  Munir, a renowned Arab author exiled in Germany, is burdened by psychological torment and plagu…

  

  Ameer Fakher Eldin / Germany, Italy, Canada, Palestine, Jordan, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Zanj Revolution

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  While covering community clashes in southern Algeria, Ibn Battuta, a journalist, finds himself…

  

  Tariq Teguia / Algeria, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Zanka Contact

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Casablanca. Larsen, a self-destructive has-been rocker, meets Rajae, a singer with a golden voi…

  

  Ismaël El Iraki / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• aKasha

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Adnan is a revolutionary war hero whose love for fighting and his AK-47 are rivalled only by hi…

  

  hajooj kuka / Sudan, South Africa, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• iPhone Memory

  Fall Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  This docu-fiction uses the device of a stolen iPhone to depict the struggles of several Parisia…

  

  Mahdi Ali Ali / Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Żejtune

  Spring Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

  At 25, Mar feels like life’s already at a dead-end. She dreams of escaping her tiny island home…

  

  Alex Camilleri / Malta, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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