• February 19

  Spring Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  It is February 19. The train will depart with Anna and Alex. Years have passed; the day has com…

  

  Tamara Stepanyan / Armenia, Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Freedom Fields

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  In post-revolution Libya, a group of women are brought together by one dream: to play football…

  

  Naziha Arebi / Libya, United Kingdom, United States of America, Netherlands, Canada, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Freedom Fields

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  At the new dawn of a nation once cut off from the world, a dynamic group of women from fracture…

  

  Naziha Arebi / Libya, United Kingdom, Netherlands, United States of America, Qatar, Lebanon, Canada / Feature Documentary

• 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

• From a City with No Images

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production/Post-Production Stage

  Many images... First: A woman looks at a book of pictures. She cries. 'Have you seen what they…

  

  Sabine El Chamaa / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• Ghadi

  Spring Grant 2013 - Post-Production Stage

  In a small neighbourhood of a traditional Lebanese coastal town, Leba, a music instructor, marr…

  

  Amin Dora / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Go Home

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Nada is going home. Or at least she wants to. When she returns to Lebanon, she realises she's a…

  

  Jihane Chouaib / Lebanon, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Grandma

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Sarah, a teenager, lives with Marta – her grandmother – and her younger sister in Byblos. The f…

  

  Merva Faddoul / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Grandma, a Thousand Times

  Fall Grant 2010 - Post-Production Stage

  'Grandma, a Thousand Times’ puts a feisty Beiruti grandmother at the centre of brave film exerc…

  

  Mahmoud Kaabour / Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Great Family

  Fall Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  ‘The Great Family’ follows the story of Marlene, a 43-year-old woman who was adopted from Leban…

  

  Eliane Raheb / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• HEAdbANG Lullaby

  Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Casablanca, June 11, 1986 – the day of the World Cup. After yet another blunder, embittered cop…

  

  Hicham Lasri / Morocco, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Harvest

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  A young woman walks out of the Beirut airport alone and makes her way back home to her parents’…

  

  Ely Dagher / Lebanon, France, Belgium, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Heim

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  If we can’t live together here, we can’t live together anywhere. This drama takes place in a re…

  

  Liwaa Yazaji, Mohammad Abou Laban / Lebanon, Qatar / TV Series

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I Used to Sleep on the Rooftop

  Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Nuhad, a 53-year-old Syrian woman, had never left Syria until the war made her reconsider her e…

  

  Angie Obeid / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• I, Hummus

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  When I landed in Canada in 2006, I became recognized as a giant walking plate of hummus. Being…

  

  Rawane Nassif / Lebanon, Canada, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

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