• From My Syrian Room

  Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  How can one operate as a free, creative person when one has been channelled to remain a good ci…

  

  Hazem Alhamwi / Syria, Lebanon, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Girl Made Of Dust

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  In a village of the Lebanese Chouf, ten-year-old Ruba lives in a dream world filled with witche…

  

  Hiam Abbass / Palestine, Lebanon, France, Germany, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Handala, The Boy Without A Face

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Handala, the refugee Palestinian child, appeared in thousands of political caricatures to shed…

  

  Mahmoud Kaabour / Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• Holy Cow

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Tapdig has what seems like a perfectly straightforward wish – to obtain a cow from Europe – for…

  

  Imamaddin Hasanov / Azerbaijan, Germany, Romania, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• House Without Roof

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  ‘House Without Roof’ tells the journey of Alan, Jan and Liya, three siblings born in the Kurdis…

  

  Soleen Yusef / Iraq, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Houston, We Have a Problem!

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  In 1948, a space programme was established in Yugoslavia, based on the diaries and technical pl…

  

  Žiga Virc / Slovenia, Germany, Croatia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• How My Grandmother Became A Chair

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  The heartless sea is relentlessly approaching poor grandmother’s house. By losing her five sens…

  

  Nicolas Fattouh / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Short 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

• In the Claws of a Century Wanting

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Anne gives birth to her third child. Akira learns reading and writing while foraging for scrap…

  

  Jewel Maranan / Philippines, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Inside Me

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  A young Egyptian girl living with a conservative group that follows communal acts and practices…

  

  Halla Tarek / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Interpret

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  After living a relatively normal life as a student studying in Berlin, Hassan reluctantly accep…

  

  Ali Kareem Obaid / Iraq, Italy, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Janitou

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  In Algeria in the mid-1980s, during a period of intense political and social unrest, the Bollyw…

  

  Amine Hattou / Algeria, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• A Kasha

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Adnan is a revolutionary war hero whose love for fighting and his AK-47 are rivalled only by hi…

  

  hajooj kuka / Sudan, South Africa, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Kashkash

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  In a region torn apart by wars, migration, mandates, and cultural diversity, we discovered an u…

  

  Lea Najjar / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Key

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Fathi Moftah, a child refugee, is obsessed with collecting keys. One day, while he is working a…

  

  Ghassan Jaradat / Jordan, Germany, Qatar / Short 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

• Madmen's Fort

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  In 1860, the Algerian Sahara is coveted by the colonial powers of the time, who dream of it as…

  

  Narimane Mari / Algeria, France, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• T​he Maiden’s Pond

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  ‘The Maiden’s Pond’ tells the story of two women trying to maintain and negotiate their lives w…

  

  Bassem Breche / Lebanon, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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