• I Dreamt of Empire

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Cairo, 1980. Musa, a brilliant Egyptian professor, cannot move past the grief of losing his onl…

  

  Kasem Kharsa / Egypt, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Idea of a Lake

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Inés, a 35 year-old photographer, is expecting a child and is in an emotionally vulnerable stat…

  

  Milagros Mumenthaler / Switzerland, Argentina, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• In A Dream You Saw a Way to Survive and You Were Full of Joy

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Layal, 21, returns home one night after a sexual encounter and joins her mother Salma, who is u…

  

  Remi Itani / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• In Vitro

  Fall Grants 2018 -

  In a converted nuclear reactor, 70-year-old Dunia, the dying founder of a hi-tech orchard, pass…

  

  Larissa Sansour / Palestine, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• InshAllah a Boy

  Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  Nawal, a grieving mother shaken up by the sudden death of her husband, is now at the risk of lo…

  

  Amjad Al Rasheed / Jordan, Egypt, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• James Dean and Me

  Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  In 1967, in the shadow of the looming Arab-Israeli War, a Palestinian teenager watches James De…

  

  Sameh Zoabi / Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Joint Possession

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Tangier topography is in turmoil. Pharaonic real estate projects surround the Mansouria, a land…

  

  Leila Kilani / Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Journey

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Baghdad, 30 December, 2006. Sara, an unassuming young woman, enters Baghdad’s central train sta…

  

  Mohamed Jabarah Al Daradji / Iraq, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• LABAN: The False Prophets of Johann Sebastian Bach

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  The French take Lebanon over from the Ottoman Empire and decide to flood a village in order to…

  

  Daniel Joseph / Lebanon, France, Georgia, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Ladder to Damascus

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Ghalia moves to Damascus to study acting and rents a room in a traditional courtyard house, whe…

  

  Mohamad Malas / Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Lamb

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  As ‘Lamb’ opens, nine-year-old Ephraïm (an affecting As ‘Lamb’ opens, nine-year-old Ephraïm (an…

  

  Yared Zeleke / France, Ethiopia, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Land

  Fall Grant 2013 -

  The Denetclaws are a Native American family who live on the Prairie Wolf Indian Reservation. Ne…

  

  Babak Jalali / United Kingdom, Italy, France, Netherlands, Mexico, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Last Land

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Evangelina and Amancio, an elderly couple, live out their lives on an isolated hill. Evangelina…

  

  Pablo Lamar / Paraguay, Netherlands, Chile, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Last Queen

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  It is the year 1516. Algiers is a small Arabian-Berber republic, suffocated by the Spaniards, w…

  

  Damien Ounouri / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Last of Us

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  N crosses the desert to North Africa, intending to obtain illegal passage to Europe. After he i…

  

  Ala Eddine Slim / Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Liborio

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Liborio is a peasant who gets lost in a hurricane and takes shelter in a cave. When his townshi…

  

  Fernando Martinez Sosa / Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Line of Sight

  Spring Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  The film opens with a single shot showing a confrontation between Laila and Sami. Laila, a 22-y…

  

  Aseel Mansour / Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Load

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Vlada works as a truck driver during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporti…

  

  Ognjen Glavonić / Serbia, France, Croatia, Iran, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Lonely Rock

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Fidel is a fifty-year-old llama herder living in a sparsely populated community in the Argentin…

  

  Alejandro Telemaco Tarraf / Argentina, Mexico, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Long Day's Journey Into Night

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  Luo Hongwu returns to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled several years ago. He begins the s…

  

  Gan BI / China, France, Taiwan, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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