• The Return

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  A man and a woman cross Syria at war. Forty-year-old Taysir, a Syrian, an exile in France, but…

  

  Meyar Al-Roumi / Syria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Reverence for Spiders

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  New York-based imam Omar Metwally develops an unlikely friendship with the homeless teenager wh…

  

  Faiza Ambah / Saudi Arabia, United States of America, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Rey

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  In 1860, a 35-year-old Frenchman explores Araucania, an autonomous region of southern Chile. Th…

  

  Niles Atallah / Chile, France, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Rise of the Gulf / Beyond Black Gold

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Two films to tell the incredible tale of the metamorphosis of the Gulf’s emirates over the cour…

  

  Frédéric Compain / France, Qatar, Kuwait / Feature Documentary

• The Rooftops

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Algiers. An overcrowded city with endless traffic jams, chaotic crowds, rundown buildings, old…

  

  Merzak Allouache / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Roundabout in My Head

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  While it may seem strange to think of an abattoir as a place of peace and beauty, ‘Roundabout…

  

  Hassen Ferhani / Algeria, France, Lebanon, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Samir in the Dust

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  I always liked smugglers because they are playing with borders. But, I soon realized that the o…

  

  Mohamed Ouzine / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Scenes from a Revolt Sustained

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Examining the culture and history of Tunisia and how it has been mediated or ignored by the Wes…

  

  Kays Mejri, Matt Peterson / France, Tunisia, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• School Of Hope

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Climate change and overgrazing have brought poverty to the old nomad tribes of the High Plateau…

  

  Mohamed El Aboudi / Morocco, Finland, France, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Severed Head

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Two young shepherds, Nizar (16), and his cousin Achraf (14) are grazing their goats on a…

  

  Lotfi Achour / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Silence of the Wind

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Rafito deals in smuggling undocumented people from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico, a ter…

  

  Álvaro Aponte-Centeno / Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Siren of Faso Fani

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Through the eyes of former workers at the once-famous cotton factory in Burkina Faso, ‘The Sire…

  

  Michel K. Zongo / Burkina Faso, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Sixteen

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  In order to say his last goodbye, Adam (16) hides behind a Burqa and goes out into the streets…

  

  Sameh Morsy / Egypt, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Sleepless nights

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Two people irrevocably changed by war come together in ‘Confession and Struggle,’ an unflinchin…

  

  Eliane Raheb / Lebanon, France, United Arab Emirates, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Sofia

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Sofia lives with her parents in Casablanca. Suffering from pregnancy denial, she finds herself…

  

  Meryem Benm’Barek / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Son

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Tunisia, Summer 2011. Fares, Meriem, and their 10-year-old son Aziz are a modern and happy Tuni…

  

  Mehdi Barsaoui / Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• South Terminal

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  In a Mediterranean country descending into insecurity and armed conflict, a doctor strives to d…

  

  Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche / France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Stateless

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Henia will give anything to mend her broken past and find her mother, from whom she has been se…

  

  Narjiss Nejjar / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Still Recording

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Two young artists, Saeed Al Batal and Ghiath Ayoub become embroiled in the events of the besieg…

  

  Saeed Al Batal, Ghiath Ayoub / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Talking About Trees

  Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  Filmmakers Ibrahim, Soliman, Manar and Altayeb have been friends for over 45 years, idealists a…

  

  Suhaib Gasmelbari / France, Sudan, Germany, Chad, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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