• Facing the Dragon

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  In a documentary filmed over four years, filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi intimately follows two uncon…

  

  Sedika Mojadidi / Afghanistan, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Frenzy

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Kadir is released after a 15-year prison term and goes in search of his younger brother Ahmet.…

  

  Emin Alper / Turkey, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• A Gaza Weekend

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  The UN imposes an embargo on Israel following the outbreak of a deadly virus. However, due to i…

  

  Basil Khalil / Palestine, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Handala, The Boy Without A Face

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Handala, the refugee Palestinian child, appeared in thousands of political caricatures to shed…

  

  Mahmoud Kaabour / Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Hitch 60 (working title)

  Spring Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  Two mod girls from South-East London embark on a journey across continents, travelling away fro…

  

  Sara Al Obaidly / Qatar, United Kingdom, Turkey / Feature Documentary

• Home There..Cinema Here

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  An abandoned movie theatre. Sound and image buried in dust. A waft of light spills over broken…

  

  Nidal Al Dibs / Egypt, Qatar, Syria / Feature Documentary

• 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

• A House in Jerusalem

  Spring Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  In the hope of fulfilling their life-long desire of living in the Holy Land, a Jewish American…

  

  Muayad Alayan / Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive And You Were Full Of Joy

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Layal, a young Lebanese girl, finds the gap between her daily life and internal state is growin…

  

  Remi Itani / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• In The Middle

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  In a rarely seen perspective of war, we follow Ali—a Yemeni soldier on tour in the temporary ca…

  

  Mariam Al-Dhubhani / Yemen, Qatar / Short Documentary

• In the Claws of a Century Wanting

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Anne gives birth to her third child. Akira learns reading and writing while foraging for scrap…

  

  Jewel Maranan / Philippines, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• In the Future, They Ate from the Finest Porcelain

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  ‘In the Future, They Ate from the Finest Porcelain’ resides in the cross-section of sci-fi, arc…

  

  Larissa Sansour / Palestine, United Kingdom, Denmark, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• It Comes By Night (Aswang)

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  When men turn up dead, the old folks whisper of the "aswang"—a shapeshifting beast from folklor…

  

  Alyx Ayn Arumpac / Philippines, France, Norway, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• A Kasha

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Adnan is a revolutionary war hero whose love for fighting and his AK-47 are rivalled only by hi…

  

  hajooj kuka / Sudan, South Africa, Germany, 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 Lebanese Rocket Society

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  When filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige inadvertently discovered that their native…

  

  Khalil Joreige, Joana Hadjithomas / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Load

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Vlada works as a truck driver during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporti…

  

  Ognjen Glavonić / Serbia, France, Croatia, Iran, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Looking for the Man with the Camera

  Spring Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  "Looking for the Man with the Camera" is a journey that takes the narrator from Geneva to the…

  

  Boutheyna Bouslama / France, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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