• 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

• Long Day's Journey Into Night

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  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

• Longer Will Be The Night

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Nora learns that the Algerian government is planning to compensate victims of rape from during…

  

  Latifa Said / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Look at Me

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Lotfi, a fortysomething Tunisian immigrant, leads the life of a small-time thug in the Noailles…

  

  Nejib Belkadhi / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Lust

  Spring Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  Umm Shooq has run away from her wealthy family to marry the man she loves and has settled into…

  

  Khaled El Hagar / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Madame Courage

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Omar, an unstable and lonely teenager, lives in a slum in the suburbs of the Algerian port city…

  

  Merzak Allouache / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Madmen's Fort

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  In 1860, the Algerian Sahara is coveted by the colonial powers of the time, who dream of it as…

  

  Narimane Mari / Algeria, France, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• T​he Maiden’s Pond

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  ‘The Maiden’s Pond’ tells the story of two women trying to maintain and negotiate their lives w…

  

  Bassem Breche / Lebanon, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Mama, Where Are You?

  Fall Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Abbas is a 37-year-old bachelor who still lives with his parents in Kuwait. Passive, immature,…

  

  Meqdad Al-Kout / Kuwait, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Man Without a Cellphone

  Fall Grant 2010 - Post-Production Stage

  A humorous, sharp take on the social milieu of a Palestinian village inside Israel. Jawdat just…

  

  Sameh Zoabi / Belgium, France, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Man of Honor

  Fall Grant 2010 - Post-Production Stage

  Set in Lebanon and Jordan, ‘A Man of Honor’ is a story of passion, betrayal and the many facets…

  

  Jean-Claude Codsi / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Marjoun is 17 years old and an outsider in her home of Little Rock, Arkansas. While her father…

  

  Susan Youssef / Lebanon, Netherlands, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Me Myself and Murdoch

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Ahmad is a 22-year-old Palestinian from a conservative Muslim family in Hebron. With his friend…

  

  Yahya Alabdallah / Palestine, Jordan, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Mediterranea

  Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  As ‘Mediterranea’ opens in Algeria, Ayiva and his friend Abas climb onto a truck packed to burs…

  

  Jonas Carpignano / Italy, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Mediterranean Fever

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Waleed, a Palestinian man, lives comfortably in his sea-view home in Haifa with his wife and ch…

  

  Maha Haj / Palestine, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Memories on Stone

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  ‘You have to be crazy to make a film in Kurdistan.’ So says one of the characters in Shawkat Am…

  

  Shawkat Amin Korki / Germany, Qatar, Iraqi Kurdistan Region / Feature Narrative

• Memory Hotel

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Germany, 1945. World War II is nearing its climactic end. Five-year-old Sophie and her parents…

  

  Heinrich Sabl / Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Men in the Sun

  Fall Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  Chatila, Fatah and Abu-Love, three Palestinian refugees, dream of escaping Athens after seven y…

  

  Mahdi Fleifel / Palestine, Greece, United Kingdom, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Mimosas

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  An elderly sheikh, nearing death, seeks to travel to his birthplace in the Atlas Mountains so h…

  

  Oliver Laxe Coro / Spain, Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Miss Camel

  Fall Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  Melwah, a teenage camel, lives under the strict supervision of her father, and hangs out with h…

  

  Haifaa Al Mansour / Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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