• After A Revolution

  Spring Grants 2019 -

  Filmed over six years, ‘After A Revolution’ is a brother and sister’s epic, challenging, yet in…

  

  Giovanni Buccomino / Italy, Libya, United Kingdom, United States of America, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Blessed Benefit

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Ahmad, a construction worker, gets tangled up in an unfortunate business deal that lands him in…

  

  Mahmoud Al Massad / Jordan, Netherlands, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Burning Birds

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  1989. A small village in eastern Sri Lanka. After her husband is abducted, tortured and murdere…

  

  Sanjeewa Pushpakumara / Sri Lanka, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• By the Time It Gets Dark

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  By the Time It Gets Dark’ tells the interwoven stories of several characters: a film director a…

  

  Anocha Suwichakornpong / Thailand, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• City of the Sun

  Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Imagined as a city of the future during the Soviet era, the once-celebrated manganese-mining to…

  

  Rati Oneli / Georgia, United States of America, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• Dede

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Dina lives in a remote village high in the Georgian mountains, where traditions have remained t…

  

  Mariam Khatchvani / Georgia, Ireland, Netherlands, Croatia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Die Welt

  Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  'Die Welt' is an audacious hybrid of fiction and documentary, showing contemporary Tunisia shor…

  

  Karim Alexander Pitstra / Tunisia, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature 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

• Gaza 36mm

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  There are no longer any cinemas in Gaza due to the force of fundamentalist Islam, which sees th…

  

  Khalil El-Muzayen / Palestine, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• Land

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  The Denetclaws are a Native American family who live on the Prairie Wolf Indian Reservation. Ne…

  

  Babak Jalali / United Kingdom, Italy, France, Netherlands, Mexico, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Last Land

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Evangelina and Amancio, an elderly couple, live out their lives on an isolated hill. Evangelina…

  

  Pablo Lamar / Paraguay, Netherlands, Chile, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Marjoun is 17 years old and an outsider in her home of Little Rock, Arkansas. While her father…

  

  Susan Youssef / Lebanon, Netherlands, United States of America, 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

• 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

• 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

• The Seen and Unseen

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  One day in a hospital room, 10-year-old Tantri realises she will not have much more time with h…

  

  Kamila Andini / Indonesia, Netherlands, Australia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• To All Naked Men

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  The war in Syria is drawing to an end, and the first reliable election stands on the ruins of t…

  

  Bassam Chekhes / Syria, Netherlands, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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