• Hope

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Hévi and Walat, a Kurdish-Syrian refugee couple in their thirties meet a human trafficker. They…

  

  Mohammad Shaikhow / Syria, Iraq, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• House Without Roof

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  ‘House Without Roof’ tells the journey of Alan, Jan and Liya, three siblings born in the Kurdis…

  

  Soleen Yusef / Iraq, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Interpret

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  After living a relatively normal life as a student studying in Berlin, Hassan reluctantly accep…

  

  Ali Kareem Obaid / Iraq, Italy, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• It’s Far Away Where I Must Go

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  At the age of 70, my mother Aicha lost the notion of time and space. Forced to live in a nursin…

  

  Karima Saidi / Morocco, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Janitou

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  In Algeria in the mid-1980s, during a period of intense political and social unrest, the Bollyw…

  

  Amine Hattou / Algeria, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Last of Us

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  N crosses the desert to North Africa, intending to obtain illegal passage to Europe. After he i…

  

  Ala Eddine Slim / Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• MICA

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  12-year-old Saïd (Mica) sells grocery bags in souks. He lives with his mother and ailing father…

  

  Ismaël Ferroukhi / France, Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Maghrebim

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  The director returns to the roots of his family’s history, starting from footage his parents fi…

  

  Ivan Boccara / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• 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

• 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

• My English Cousin

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  2001, Fahed reaches the UK his head filled with dreams. 2018, in the thrall of a mid-life crisi…

  

  Karim Sayad / Algeria, Switzerland, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Nezouh

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  During the Syrian conflict, a missile destroys the ceiling of Zeina’s house. She is 12 years ol…

  

  Soudade Kaadan / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Northern Wind

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Marcel, a worker in a French shoe factory, lives a simple life between family, fishing and the…

  

  Walid Mattar / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Paris the White

  Spring Grant 2015 -

  Aicha married Nour in 1962, the year of Algerian independence. Later, Nour went to work in Fran…

  

  Lidia Terki / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The People

  Fall Grants 2019 -

  Mahfod Lakroune, Ahcen Djouzi and Amir Bensaid from the former troupe “Action Culturelle des Tr…

  

  Rahma Benhamou El Madani / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Playground Chronicles

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Brahim and his family are of Moroccan descent, and live on the grounds of a crane construction…

  

  Brahim Fritah / France, Qatar, Morocco / Feature Narrative

• Queen of the Hoggar (working title)

  Spring Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  Kella, a young princess, and her elder sister are forced to leave their home because of war. Th…

  

  Mohannad Ahmed Muhammad Alamin / Libya, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Red Olive Tree

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  The Belmakis, an upper-middle-class family in France, appear to lead a trouble-free life; all,…

  

  Karim Bensalah / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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