• 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

• Road to La Paz

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Thirty-five-year-old Sebastián’s greatest passions are his old Peugeot 505 and the prog-rock ba…

  

  Francisco Varone / Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Selma

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  After the accidental death of her taxi-driver husband, Selma decides to become master of her ow…

  

  Mohamed Ben Attia / Tunisia, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Shadow of a Man

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Ahmad, 26, is the best mechanic in the mountains of Lebanon. The only car he hasn’t had time an…

  

  Niam Itani / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Sivas

  Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Set in a bleak Anatolian village, ‘Sivas’ tells the story of 11-year-old Aslan and Sivas, a wea…

  

  Kaan Müjdeci / Turkey, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Taste of Cement

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  The Lebanese Civil War ended nearly a generation ago, but it remains far from forgotten, stampe…

  

  Ziad Kalthom / Syria, Lebanon, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Temporarily

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Reham is a 24-year-old Syrian girl who studied acting in Syria. Because of the war there, she m…

  

  Reham Alkassar / Germany, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• This Haunting Memory That Is Not My Own

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  A family finds itself violently ripped apart from their native home and thrown into the sea, in…

  

  Panos Aprahamian / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• Tshweesh

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Beirut, the day of the World Cup. A woman walks through the relatively quiet streets – people a…

  

  Feyrouz Serhal / Lebanon, Germany, Spain, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Underdown

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Moving to Beirut’s anarchic rhythm, ‘Underdown’ follows the struggles of a Palestinian cab driv…

  

  Sarah Kaskas / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• Watch Before Deletion

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  An episode of a radio show revisiting the life of an Arab music icon takes an unexpected turn w…

  

  Mohammad Shawky Hassan / Egypt, Germany, Lebanon, 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

• 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

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