• 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

• 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

• Housekeeping

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Farida, a strong-willed Egyptian woman in her 50s, is a cleaning lady who works and lives in an…

  

  Mazen Khaled / Lebanon, Egypt, France, 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 Vitro

  Fall Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  In a converted nuclear reactor, 70-year-old Dunia, the dying founder of a hi-tech orchard, pass…

  

  Larissa Sansour / Palestine, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• 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

• Invasion

  Fall Grant 2013 - Post-Production Stage

  On the night of 20 December, 1989, the USA launched a massive invasion of otherwise peaceful Pa…

  

  Abner Benaim / Panama, Argentina, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• J'ai Le Cafard

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Maryam, a single forty-two-year-old office employee is struggling with keeping up the appearanc…

  

  Maysaa Almumin / Kuwait, Qatar / Short Narrative

• 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 Journey

  Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Baghdad, 30 December, 2006. Sara, an unassuming young woman, enters Baghdad’s central train sta…

  

  Mohamed Jabarah Al Daradji / Iraq, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Just like boys!

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Eya and Sofia, two sisters of ten and twelve years old, are sent to the local grocery store by…

  

  Amel Guellaty / Tunisia, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Key

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Fathi Moftah, a child refugee, is obsessed with collecting keys. One day, while he is working a…

  

  Ghassan Jaradat / Jordan, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Ladder to Damascus

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Ghalia moves to Damascus to study acting and rents a room in a traditional courtyard house, whe…

  

  Mohamad Malas / Syria, Lebanon, 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 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

• Lust

  Spring Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  Umm Shooq has run away from her wealthy family to marry the man she loves and has settled into…

  

  Khaled El Hagar / Egypt, 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

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