• Hedi

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Hedi is a simple young man. He is not very talkative or reactive and does not expect much from…

  

  Mohamed Ben Attia / Tunisia, Belgium, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Heights

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Abdul’Rohim and his friends are young Rohingyas fleeing persecution in Myanmar to find refuge i…

  

  Faïza Yakoubi / Algeria, Romania, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Her Mother's Daughter

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Tamara, sexy and sparkling, is a professor of biology at the American University of Beirut. She…

  

  Dima El-Horr / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• History of Fear

  Fall Grant 2013 - Post-Production Stage

  Pola spends his days trimming grass and taking care of a football court in a gated community in…

  

  Benjamin Naishtat / Argentina, Uruguay, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Home Sweet Home

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  The filmmaker’s father spent 40 years as the director of a secular school he founded in Beirut’…

  

  Nadine Naous / France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Honey Cigar

  Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  France, 1993. Selma, a sharp, 18-year-old Algerian girl, lives in a mostly Catholic suburb of P…

  

  Kamir Aïnouz / France, Algeria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Hope

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Hévi and Walat, a Kurdish-Syrian refugee couple in their thirties meet a human trafficker. They…

  

  Mohammad Shaikhow / Syria, Iraq, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Housekeeping

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Farida, a strong-willed Egyptian woman in her 50s, is a cleaning lady who works and lives in an…

  

  Mazen Khaled / Lebanon, Egypt, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Hunting Season

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  After his mother dies, 17-year-old Nahuel is shipped from Buenos Aires to the south of Argentin…

  

  Natalia Garagiola / Argentina, France, Germany, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• I Dreamt of Empire

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Cairo, 1980. Musa, a brilliant Egyptian professor, cannot move past the grief of losing his onl…

  

  Kasem Kharsa / Egypt, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Invented Biography

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Arturo Belano, alter ego of the writer Roberto Bolaño, shared with his creator a significant pa…

  

  Nicolás Lasnibat / France, Chile, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• It Comes By Night (Aswang)

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  When men turn up dead, the old folks whisper of the "aswang"—a shapeshifting beast from folklor…

  

  Alyx Ayn Arumpac / Philippines, France, Norway, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Joint Possession

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Tangier topography is in turmoil. Pharaonic real estate projects surround the Mansouria, a land…

  

  Leila Kilani / Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Journey

  Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Baghdad, 30 December, 2006. Sara, an unassuming young woman, enters Baghdad’s central train sta…

  

  Mohamed Jabarah Al Daradji / Iraq, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Lamb

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  As ‘Lamb’ opens, nine-year-old Ephraïm (an affecting As ‘Lamb’ opens, nine-year-old Ephraïm (an…

  

  Yared Zeleke / France, Ethiopia, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Land

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  The Denetclaws are a Native American family who live on the Prairie Wolf Indian Reservation. Ne…

  

  Babak Jalali / United Kingdom, Italy, France, Netherlands, Mexico, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Last Queen

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  It is the year 1516. Algiers is a small Arabian-Berber republic, suffocated by the Spaniards, w…

  

  Damien Ounouri / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Lebanese Rocket Society

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  When filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige inadvertently discovered that their native…

  

  Khalil Joreige, Joana Hadjithomas / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Lemon Hart

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  In a story of how courage transcends fear, a young American girl living in Le Var, France refle…

  

  Sara Al-Thani / Qatar, France / Short Narrative

• Lemon Hart

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  In a story of how courage transcends fear, a young American girl living in Le Var, France refle…

  

  Sara Al-Thani / Qatar, France / Short Narrative

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