• The Boss

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Five boys from a small village lose their football field and swimming pool to the Tigers, a gan…

  

  Rzgar Huseein Ahmed / Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Short Narrative

• 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 Dark Wind

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Reko and Pero, a young Yazidi couple, prepare for family life in their village Boza. Suddenly,…

  

  Hussein Hassan / Iraq, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Haifa Street

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  It’s 2006 and Baghdad is ravaged by sectarian violence. Haifa Street is the epicentre of the co…

  

  Mohanad Hayal / Iraq, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Haifa Street

  Fall Grant 2015 -

  Haifa Street, one of the most dangerous locations during the civil war in Baghdad, in 2006. Tar…

  

  Mohanad Hayal / Iraq, 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Language

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Used to reading and printing Braille, a blind man in Baghdad becomes a giant and finds he can “…

  

  Mortada Gzar / Iraq, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Memories on Stone

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  ‘You have to be crazy to make a film in Kurdistan.’ So says one of the characters in Shawkat Am…

  

  Shawkat Amin Korki / Germany, Qatar, Iraqi Kurdistan Region / Feature Narrative

• Nouss Nouss

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  ‘Nouss Nouss’ portrays an encounter between Western and Arab cultures via the story of a French…

  

  Leila Albayaty / Iraq, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• The Road to Mosul

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Mosul, 2014. Ten-year-old Zaineb and her 14-year-old brother, Yousif escape after ISIS militia…

  

  Yahya Al Allaq / Iraq, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Shelter

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Ahmad struggles to survive in the ghettos of Beirut. He cannot remember his past or where he ca…

  

  Kasem Kharsa / Lebanon, Qatar, Iraq, Egypt / Feature Narrative

• The Woodman

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  A surreal feature film with a thriller theme, and a life-sized wooden dummy as the protagonist,…

  

  Koutaiba Al-Janabi / Iraq, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Window

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Baghdad under the American occupation. Iraq is in a power vacuum; anarchy is rife; curfews are…

  

  Koutaiba Al-Janabi / Iraq, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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