• Madame Courage

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Omar, an unstable and lonely teenager, lives in a slum in the suburbs of the Algerian port city…

  

  Merzak Allouache / Algeria, France, 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

• Mama, Where Are You?

  Fall Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Abbas is a 37-year-old bachelor who still lives with his parents in Kuwait. Passive, immature,…

  

  Meqdad Al-Kout / Kuwait, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Man of Honor

  Fall Grant 2010 - Post-Production Stage

  Set in Lebanon and Jordan, ‘A Man of Honor’ is a story of passion, betrayal and the many facets…

  

  Jean-Claude Codsi / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Mariam

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Ever since she attended the Hajj with her grandmother, Mariam has covered her head, but when Fr…

  

  Faiza Ambah / France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia / Short Narrative

• Mediterranea

  Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  As ‘Mediterranea’ opens in Algeria, Ayiva and his friend Abas climb onto a truck packed to burs…

  

  Jonas Carpignano / Italy, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Mediterranean Fever

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Waleed, a Palestinian man, lives comfortably in his sea-view home in Haifa with his wife and ch…

  

  Maha Haj / Palestine, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Mehdi

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Mehdi, Vessale and M’Barek are three thugs based in Aubervilliers. Mehdi, 30, lives alone with…

  

  Yassine Qnia / France, Qatar / Feature 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

• Memory Hotel

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Germany, 1945. World War II is nearing its climactic end. Five-year-old Sophie and her parents…

  

  Heinrich Sabl / Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Men in the Sun

  Fall Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  Chatila, Fatah and Abu-Love, three Palestinian refugees, dream of escaping Athens after seven y…

  

  Mahdi Fleifel / Palestine, Greece, United Kingdom, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Mimosas

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  An elderly sheikh, nearing death, seeks to travel to his birthplace in the Atlas Mountains so h…

  

  Oliver Laxe Coro / Spain, Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Motherhood

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Salha, the matriarch of a farming family in the remote north of Tunisia, is overjoyed when her…

  

  Meryam Joobeur / Tunisia, Canada, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Mountain

  Fall Grant 2010 - Post-Production Stage

  A work of shadowy implosion, the stark and largely silent narrative of Lebanese director Ghassa…

  

  Ghassan Salhab / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Mountain

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Day breaks on the eighth floor in a suburban neighbourhood of Lisbon and 14-year-old David’s gr…

  

  João Salaviza / Portugal, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Musk

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  After giving up a promising career in museum management to attend to his ailing father, Ahmed s…

  

  Humaid Alsuwaidi / United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Mustang

  Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  A village by the Black Sea, far from Istanbul. When they play a game in which they sit on boys’…

  

  Deniz Gamze Ergüven / Turkey, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• My Brother

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  An artist and painter in his 40s, Mo Bensalah is a Moroccan immigrant’s son. We see his essence…

  

  Kamal El Mahouti / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Nawara

  Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  Nawara, a woman in her 20s, works as a housemaid in the home of Ossama Bey and his family, who…

  

  Hala Khalil / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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