• The Dam

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  North Sudan, Merowe Dam. Abu Salma, a seasonal worker from Darfur, works in a traditional brick…

  

  Ali Cherri / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Damascus My First Kiss

  Spring Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  When I got my first period, my mother kissed me and said with a smile: “Now you are a woman. Yo…

  

  Lina Alabed / Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Dancing Beirut

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  A group of dancers wander through Beirut, looking for spaces where they can generate visual, so…

  

  Alia Hamdan, Fares Chalabi / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• 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 - Post-Production Stage

  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 (working title)

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  When Farid, a 60-year-old man who lives abroad, visits his wife in their Lebanese mountain home…

  

  Sarah Francis / Lebanon, 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

• A Deep Long Breath

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  In 18 days, the January 25 Egyptian Revolution toppled a three-decade-old dictatorship and Egyp…

  

  Tahani Rached / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Democracy Year Zero

  Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  Four weeks. That is how long it took the Tunisian people to overthrow the dictator Zine El Abid…

  

  Amira Chebli, Christophe Cotteret / Tunisia, Belgium, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Desert Fish

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  The southern desert of Morocco. The son wants to become a fisherman and is always dreaming of t…

  

  Alaa Eddine Aljem / Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Devil's Drivers

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  The southern West Bank with its beautiful landscapes is home to many Palestinian Bedouins. In t…

  

  Daniel Carsenty, Mohammed Abugeth / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Diamond Island

  Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  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

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