• Cotton Queen

  Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, 15-year-old Nafisa lives a simple life, picking cotton wi…

  

  Suzannah Mirghani / Palestine, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Crown of Olives

  Fall Grants 2020 - Development Stage

  Reem leaves her small Moroccan village where producing olive oil is their only means of making…

  

  Muzna Almusafer / Oman, Italy, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Dam

  Fall Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

  World-renowned visual artist Ali Cherri's feature debut, 'The Dam', is an allegorical tale set…

  

  Ali Cherri / France, Sudan, Lebanon, Germany, Serbia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Daoud's Winter

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Iraq, winter 1988. Daoud, a young man from Baghdad, is drafted into the war with Iran. At the f…

  

  Koutaiba Al-Janabi / Iraq, Lebanon, Netherlands, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Dark Skull

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  After his father dies, Elder is forced to live with his grandmother – far away from the city –…

  

  Kiro Russo / Bolivia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Dark Wind

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Reko and Pero, a young Yazidi couple, prepare for family life in their village Boza. Suddenly,…

  

  Hussein Hassan / Iraq, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Daughters of Abdul-Rahman

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Single and middle-aged, Zainab lives a dreary existence as a local seamstress and her father’s…

  

  Zaid Abu Hamdan / Jordan, Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Day I Lost My Shadow

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Sana is a young mother struggling to raise her eight-year-old child in war-torn Syria in 2012.…

  

  Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Day I Lost My Shadow

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Sana is a young mother struggling to raise her eight-year-old child in war-torn Syria in 2012.…

  

  Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Days of Grace

  Spring Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  A young Syrian man is faced with a dilemma: he has only a few days to leave Beirut to go abroad…

  

  Saleh Nass / Bahrain, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Days of Tyranny

  Fall Grant 2011 -

  In a border town set in an unnamed Arab country ruled by a ruthless dictatorship, Hana, a mothe…

  

  Katia Jarjoura / Canada, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Days of Tyranny

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  In a border town set in an unnamed Arab country ruled by a ruthless dictatorship, Hana, a mothe…

  

  Katia Jarjoura / Lebanon, France, Canada, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Dead Dog

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Aida, a 47-year-old woman living in Beirut, learns that Walid, her husband who lives and works…

  

  Sarah Francis / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Dede

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Dina lives in a remote village high in the Georgian mountains, where traditions have remained t…

  

  Mariam Khatchvani / Georgia, Ireland, Netherlands, Croatia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Demba

  Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  55-year-old Demba is about to retire after 30 years of service at the city hall in his small to…

  

  Mamadou Dia / Senegal, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Diamond Island

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Diamond Island is a symbol of Cambodia’s future, a sprawling, ultra-modern paradise for the ric…

  

  Davy Chou / Cambodia, France, Germany, Thailand, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Die Welt

  Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  'Die Welt' is an audacious hybrid of fiction and documentary, showing contemporary Tunisia shor…

  

  Karim Alexander Pitstra / Tunisia, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Roaming the streets of Beirut searching for metal objects to be recycled, Ahmed, a Syrian refug…

  

  Wissam Charaf / France, Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Disappearance

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  In an Iranian culture that operates within strict social mores, Sara, a university student, and…

  

  Ali Asgari / Iran, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story

  Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  Madagascar, nowadays. Twenty-year-old Kwame struggles to make a living in the clandestine sapph…

  

  Luck Razanajaona / Madagascar, France, Mauritius, Germany, South Africa, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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