• Plum Season

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Nouha, a 16-year-old teenager, lives in a close relationship with her mother. Her father reappe…

  

  Rim Mejdi / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Poisonous Roses

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Twenty-eight-year-old Taheya works as a washroom cleaner, and lives with her 22-year-old brothe…

  

  Fawzi Saleh / Egypt, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Poster

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  A poster appears on the walls of the Palestinian village of Reith, accusing the local women of…

  

  Suha Arraf / Palestine, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Professor

  Spring Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  In 1977, Khalil Khalsawi, a constitutional law teacher in Tunis, is commissioned by the governi…

  

  Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Queen of the Hoggar (working title)

  Spring Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  Kella, a young princess, and her elder sister are forced to leave their home because of war. Th…

  

  Mohannad Ahmed Muhammad Alamin / Libya, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Red Olive Tree

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  The Belmakis, an upper-middle-class family in France, appear to lead a trouble-free life; all,…

  

  Karim Bensalah / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• The Return

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  A man and a woman cross Syria at war. Forty-year-old Taysir, a Syrian, an exile in France, but…

  

  Meyar Al-Roumi / Syria, France, 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

• A Road to Damascus

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Gunshots ring out. A bus from Beirut to Damascus crashes. The only witness is a young botanist…

  

  Meedo Taha / Lebanon, 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 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

• 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 - Post-Production Stage

  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 - Production Stage

  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 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

• The Seen and Unseen

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  One day in a hospital room, 10-year-old Tantri realises she will not have much more time with h…

  

  Kamila Andini / Indonesia, Netherlands, Australia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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