• Hunting Season

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  After his mother dies, 17-year-old Nahuel is shipped from Buenos Aires to the south of Argentin…

  

  Natalia Garagiola / Argentina, France, Germany, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Kashta

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Out in the beautiful quiet of the desert, a man teaches his young sons how to track and hunt. F…

  

  A.J. Al-Thani / Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Man Behind the Microphone

  Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Hedi Jouini is the most popular musical star in Tunisian history, known as the “Frank Sinatra o…

  

  Claire Belhassine / Tunisia, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Marriage Project

  Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  In southern Tehran, Ehsan House is an institute funded by private donators that has taken care…

  

  Atieh Attarzadeh, Hesam Eslami / Iran, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Midnight Traveler

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee wi…

  

  Hassan Fazili / Afghanistan, United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Playtime

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Matthew lives with his mother, an army secretary, in Ahmadi, Kuwait. One night, she leaves him…

  

  Hamad Al-Tourah / Kuwait, Qatar / Short 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

• Speed Sisters

  Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Meet Marah, Mona, Betty, Noor and Maysoon – the first all-woman rally-racing team in the Middle…

  

  Amber Fares / Palestine, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Streams

  Fall Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  Amel works in a factory in Tunis. She lives with her alcoholic husband Tahar, a former local fo…

  

  Mehdi Hmili / Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Bath

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  When his wife leaves on a business trip, Imed must take care of his 5-year-old son, Hedi, for t…

  

  Anissa Daoud / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Though I Know the River Is Dry

  Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  Alaa has just returned to Palestine after years spent in Detroit. Following the Arab uprisings,…

  

  Omar Hamilton / Egypt, Palestine, United Kingdom, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Unremember

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  Joana is a 15-year-old who feeds her soul with literature and rock. She lives in Paris with her…

  

  Flavia Castro / Brazil, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Virgin, the Copts and Me

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  Namir is a French filmmaker of Egyptian origin. One day he watches a videotape of the Virgin Ma…

  

  Namir Abdel Messeeh / France, Qatar, Egypt / Feature Documentary

• The Waiting Room

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  We are all aware of the various differences among cultures – language and tradition being the m…

  

  Hend Fakhroo / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Walou

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  I hate the bled! When I was young, every summer, going to Algeria, I couldn’t do anything witho…

  

  Hassiba Belhadj / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• You Have The Night

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  After losing her job as a hostess aboard a ship, Sanja finds herself stranded, with nowhere to…

  

  Ivan Salatic / Montenegro, Serbia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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