• 200 Meters

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Mustafa and his wife Salwa come from two Palestinian villages that are only 200 meters apart, b…

  

  Ameen Nayfeh / Palestine, Jordan, France, Germany, Italy, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Abou Leila

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Algeria, 1994. Terrorist attacks have ravaged the north of the country for the past two years.…

  

  Amin Sidi-Boumédiène / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Birds of September

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production/Post-Production Stage

  Hiding behind the glass of his moving bubble, the narrator explores the streets of Beirut while…

  

  Sarah Francis / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Daoud's Winter

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Iraq, winter 1988. Daoud, a young man from Baghdad, is drafted into the war with Iran. At the f…

  

  Koutaiba Al-Janabi / Iraq, Lebanon, Netherlands, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Day I Lost My Shadow

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Sana is a young mother struggling to raise her eight-year-old child in war-torn Syria in 2012.…

  

  Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Day I Lost My Shadow

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Sana is a young mother struggling to raise her eight-year-old child in war-torn Syria in 2012.…

  

  Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Foreign Son

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Answering the call of his homeland, of which he retains only childhood memories, 50-year-old Om…

  

  Abdallah Badis / Algeria, France, 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

• 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

• Kashta

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Out in the beautiful quiet of the windswept dunes, a man teaches his young sons the traditional…

  

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

• The Man Who Stole Banksy

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  In 2007, anonymous street artist and activist Banksy painted a number of politically divisive a…

  

  Marco Proserpio / United Kingdom, Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• On the Hillsides

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  A wind of liberty called the Arab Spring has been blowing in this part of the world. Algeria re…

  

  Abdallah Badis / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Our Madness

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Lucy is hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital in Mozambique. She dreams about her little son,…

  

  João Viana / Portugal, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Railway Men

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Four Tunisian railway employees are assigned to Line #1. They call it "the normal way" because…

  

  Erige Sehiri / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• 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

• Road to La Paz

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Thirty-five-year-old Sebastián’s greatest passions are his old Peugeot 505 and the prog-rock ba…

  

  Francisco Varone / Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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