• 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

• Divine Wind

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Nour and Amine don’t know each other. They meet in a house, near the city of Timimoun, in the A…

  

  Merzak Allouache / Algeria, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Divines

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  In a ghetto where trafficking and religion run side by side, Dounia is eager for power and succ…

  

  Houda Benyamina / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Divines

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  In a ghetto where trafficking and religion run side by side, Dounia is eager for power and succ…

  

  Houda Benyamina / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Do You Love Me

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  ‘Do You Love Me’ is an archive-based documentary that portrays the lived experiences of generat…

  

  Lana Daher / Lebanon, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Dog's Children

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  In Jeddah during the economically transformative year of 1973, a rabid neighbourhood dog cataly…

  

  Layan Abdul Shakoor / Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Dogs

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Young Roman gets a whole lot more than he bargained for when he inherits a large tract of land…

  

  Bogdan Florian Mirica / Romania, France, Bulgaria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Don't Get Too Comfortable

  Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  When Shaima Al-Tamimi’s paternal grandfather migrated from Yemen to Zanzibar half a century ago…

  

  Shaima Al Tamimi / Yemen, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Netherlands, Qatar / Short Experimental

• Don't Tell a Soul

  Spring Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  Faris, a Lebanese Muslim living in the US, awakens to discover the dead body of his wife’s ex-h…

  

  Nour Wazzi / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Dona Césaria

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Césaria Evora is an internationally renowned singer whose voice rings with the culture, ambienc…

  

  Dima Al-Joundi / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Dr. Hamood Show

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Starring Mohammed Al Dosari and Qatari wrestler Ali Al Naimi, ‘Dr. Hamood Show’ is a 15-episode…

  

  Ali Al Anssari / Qatar / Unknown

• Dream Away

  Spring Grant 2014 - Development Stage

  Representing freedom and easy cash, Sharm El Sheikh has long been a dream destination for Egypt…

  

  Marouan Omara, Johanna Domke / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Dream Betrayed Me

  Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  Qamichli, Syria, 2004. Mesto, a 17-year-old boy, has but one dream—to join his city's football…

  

  Mohammad Alchikho "Shaikhow" / Syria, France, Belgium, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Dry Kingdom

  Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

  Mashael comes from a family of scientists who began researching the water shortage crisis long…

  

  Dana J. Atrach / Jordan, Qatar / TV Series

• Dyouf

  Spring Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  After he is expelled from film school, Shadi moves back in with his parents in their Bedouin vi…

  

  Saleh Saadi / Palestine, Qatar / TV Series

• Dégradé

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  A hot summer's day in the Gaza Strip. Today the electricity is on. Christine’s beauty salon is…

  

  Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Délit De Solidarité

  Fall Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  France, 2016. Ariane lives alone in a house in the heart of the Roya Valley, making a modest in…

  

  Mounia Meddour / France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Déserts

  Fall Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  Set in the vast, unforgiving landscapes of southern Morocco, ‘Déserts’ tells the tale of two pe…

  

  Faouzi Bensaïdi / Morocco, France, Germany, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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