• Burning Birds

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  1989. A small village in eastern Sri Lanka. After her husband is abducted, tortured and murdere…

  

  Sanjeewa Pushpakumara / Sri Lanka, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• By the Time It Gets Dark

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  By the Time It Gets Dark’ tells the interwoven stories of several characters: a film director a…

  

  Anocha Suwichakornpong / Thailand, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Ceuta's Gate

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Ceuta is a Spanish enclave on Moroccan soil. It has, since the independence of the country, wit…

  

  Randa Maroufi / Morocco, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• Control

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  In the state TV control room, the technical team is preparing for what is arguably the most imp…

  

  Mohamed Adeeb / Egypt, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Costa Brava Lebanon

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Lebanon, 2028. The country is drowning in garbage, yet the Badri family leads an idyllic, isola…

  

  Mounia Akl / Lebanon, France, Sweden, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Divine Wind

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  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

• Dogs

  Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  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

• 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…

  

  Mohammed (Arab) Abunasser, Ahmad (Tarazan) Abunasser / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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