• Ava

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Ava’s first visit to the gynaecologist with her mother is a traumatic experience for the young…

  

  Sadaf Foroughi / Iran, Canada, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Batata

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  The story of ‘Batata’ starts in the year 2009, in the beautiful fields of Lebanon’s Beqaa Valle…

  

  Noura Kevorkian / Lebanon, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Born in the Maelstrom

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Inspired by the novel ‘Naissance de Rebecca à l’ère des tourments’ by Québécoise author Marie-C…

  

  Meryam Joobeur / Tunisia, Canada, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Brotherhood

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Mohamed is a hardened shepherd living in rural Tunisia with his wife and two sons. His life is…

  

  Meryam Joobeur / Canada, Tunisia, Qatar, Sweden / Short Narrative

• Cinema Palestine

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  This film will focus on the ‘fourth wave’ of Palestinian cinema, running from 1980 to the prese…

  

  Tim Schwab / Palestine, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• FIRE

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Surviving in Algeria is a constant challenge that leaves the nation’s population without hope.…

  

  Meriem Achour Bouakkaz / Algeria, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Freedom Fields

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  In post-revolution Libya, a group of women are brought together by one dream: to play football…

  

  Naziha Arebi / Libya, United Kingdom, United States of America, Netherlands, Canada, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Freedom Fields

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  At the new dawn of a nation once cut off from the world, a dynamic group of women from fracture…

  

  Naziha Arebi / Libya, United Kingdom, Netherlands, United States of America, Qatar, Lebanon, Canada / Feature Documentary

• I, Hummus

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  When I landed in Canada in 2006, I became recognized as a giant walking plate of hummus. Being…

  

  Rawane Nassif / Lebanon, Canada, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Midnight Traveler

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee wi…

  

  Hassan Fazili / Afghanistan, United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Motherhood

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Salha, the matriarch of a farming family in the remote north of Tunisia, is overjoyed when her…

  

  Meryam Joobeur / Tunisia, Canada, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Opening Doors

  Fall Grant 2014 - Development Stage

  ‘Opening Doors’ tells the true story of Amna Mahmoud who, from her early childhood, dreamed of…

  

  Nora Al-Subai / Qatar, Canada / Short Narrative

• Standstill

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Arihote is a Kanienkehaka photographer whose life is at a standstill. When he witnesses the mur…

  

  Majdi El-Omari / Canada, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Names Of The Flowers

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  As Bolivia stages the 50th anniversary of the death of “great Che Guevara”, Julia an old countr…

  

  Bahman Tavoosi / Canada, United States of America, Bolivia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• This Is Congo

  Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  'This Is Congo’ is an unblinking, unfiltered look into one of the world’s longest-standing ongo…

  

  Daniel McCabe / United States of America, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Canada, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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