• Queens

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Casablanca, Morocco. 27-year-old Zineb is a repeat offender behind bars. When she learns that…

  

  Yasmine Benkiran / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Rest In Piece

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Shelling forces the 40-year-old Midyan to flee his homeland. He takes with him only his dearest…

  

  Antoine Antabi / Syria, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Return

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  A man and a woman cross Syria at war. Forty-year-old Taysir, a Syrian, an exile in France, but…

  

  Meyar Al-Roumi / Syria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Reverence for Spiders

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  New York-based imam Omar Metwally develops an unlikely friendship with the homeless teenager wh…

  

  Faiza Ambah / Saudi Arabia, United States of America, France, 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

• A Road to Damascus

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Gunshots ring out. A bus from Beirut to Damascus crashes. The only witness is a young botanist…

  

  Meedo Taha / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Rooftops

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Algiers. An overcrowded city with endless traffic jams, chaotic crowds, rundown buildings, old…

  

  Merzak Allouache / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Rumors

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Souad and her neighbours’ hearts go out to the people who live around the block, victims of the…

  

  Azza El-Hassan / Jordan, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Saffron's Land

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  In the Atlas Mountains lies Safrana, an isolated village that was repeatedly attacked by the Fr…

  

  Yassine El Idrissi / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Sahaab

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Following his brother’s death, Nasser and his friend Sanad decide to participate in a falcon ra…

  

  Khalifa Abdullah Al Muraikhi / Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Sanctorum

  Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  In a small town plagued by a war between the army and drug traffickers, a child has lost his mo…

  

  Joshua Gil / Mexico, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Scales

  Fall Grant 2014 - Development Stage

  The only source of the food on the island is mermaid flesh. The only way to keep the food suppl…

  

  Shahad Ameen / Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Screwdriver

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Young Ziad is the star of the Jalazon Refugee Camp basketball team in Palestine. When his best…

  

  Bassam Jarbawi / Palestine, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Searching For Kikhia (working Title)

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Director Jihan Kikhia was only six years old when her father was abducted. Widely considered on…

  

  Jihan Kikhia / Libya, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• The Servants

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Nabil is the guard of an old villa located by the mouth of a river. Sayed Walid, an influential…

  

  Marwan Khneisser / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Severed Head

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Two young shepherds, Nizar (16), and his cousin Achraf (14) are grazing their goats on a…

  

  Lotfi Achour / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature 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

• 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 Silence of the Wind

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Rafito deals in smuggling undocumented people from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico, a ter…

  

  Álvaro Aponte-Centeno / Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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