• Until the Birds Return

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Mourad, a businessman, rose to success in Algeria in the 2000s. Now a new man, he wants to stay…

  

  Karim Moussaoui / Algeria, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Valley

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Following a car accident on a lone mountain road, a middle-aged man loses his memory. Drenched…

  

  Ghassan Salhab / Lebanon, France, Germany, Qatar, United Arab Emirates / Feature Narrative

• The Virgin, the Copts and Me

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  Namir is a French filmmaker of Egyptian origin. One day he watches a videotape of the Virgin Ma…

  

  Namir Abdel Messeeh / France, Qatar, Egypt / Feature Documentary

• Volubilis

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Abdelkader is a security guard and Malika is a domestic employee. Recently married, they are ma…

  

  Faouzi Bensaïdi / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Wajib

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Shadi returns to his hometown to help his father hand-deliver his sister’s wedding invitations.…

  

  Annemarie Jacir / Palestine, United Arab Emirates, France, Switzerland, Norway, Colombia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Wake Up On Mars

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Ten-year-old Furkan is the youngest in his family and our guide through the film. His older sis…

  

  Dea Gjinovci / France, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Wallay

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  When 13-year-old Ady gets himself into trouble in a French suburb, his father decides to send h…

  

  Berni Goldblat / France, Burkina Faso, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Walls and People

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  This film is a cry from the heart of the Medina of Casablanca for its inhabitants and their mem…

  

  Dalila Ennadre / Morocco, Algeria, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Walou

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  I hate the bled! When I was young, every summer, going to Algeria, I couldn’t do anything witho…

  

  Hassiba Belhadj / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Weldi

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  A Tunisian couple are nearing retirement age, but times are hard, and money is tight. The life…

  

  Mohamed Ben Attia / Tunisia, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• What's Your Story? Part I

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production/Post-Production Stage

  Jamal, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, meets five young Israelis with differing ideological pe…

  

  Jamal Khalaile, Pauline Carbonnier / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Where Did I Leave My Face?

  Fall Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Ali, originally from Jerusalem, lives in Paris with his girlfriend, Julie. He is constantly tra…

  

  Ramzi Maqdisi / Palestine, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Where Do We Go Now?

  Spring Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  As sectarian conflict looms over a village in the Lebanese countryside, women of different reli…

  

  Nadine Labaki / Lebanon, France, Italy, Egypt / Feature Narrative

• Whispering Sands

  Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  A Canadian woman of Arab descent undertakes a trip and hires a guide to help her find a specifi…

  

  Nacer Khemir / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Winter Within (Maagh)

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  In Srinagar, Kashmir, Nargis works as a domestic helper for a middle-class family. Her husband,…

  

  Aamir Bashir / France, India, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Wounded Angel

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Four loosely connected stories set in a small town in Kazakhstan at the beginning of the 90s, a…

  

  Emir Baigazin / Kazakhstan, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• You Will Die at Twenty

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  In a Sudanese village, a mother gives birth to Muzamel, a boy cursed by a Dervish prophecy that…

  

  Amjad Abu Alala / Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Zaineb Hates the Snow

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  2009. Tunisian Nine-year-old Zaineb lost her father. Her mother will rebuild her life with a ma…

  

  Kaouther Ben Hania / Tunisia, France, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Zanj Revolution

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  While covering community clashes in southern Algeria, Ibn Battuta, a journalist, finds himself…

  

  Tariq Teguia / Algeria, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Zanka Contact

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Casablanca. Larsen, a self-destructive has-been rocker, meets Rajae, a singer with a golden voi…

  

  Ismaël El Iraki / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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