• Tangier Stories

  Fall Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  In contemporary Morocco, Hayat brings Soussen, her 12-year-old daughter, from their poor villag…

  

  Fyzal Boulifa / France, Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Tariq

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  A story of a relationship between a teenager and his mother. Tariq decides to test his manhood…

  

  Alaa Abdel Razek Mosbah / Egypt, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Terra Firma

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  In a small commercial harbour in the south of France, two Moroccan sailors are watching over fe…

  

  Laurent Aït Benalla / Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Alleys

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  In a claustrophobic East Amman neighbourhood, where life is dictated by gossip and violence, Al…

  

  Bassel Ghandour / Jordan, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Bystander

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  On a sunny July day in Beirut, Roger, a beloved basketball coach, is on his way to work, proudl…

  

  Rachel Aoun / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Forbidden Strings

  Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  During the day, they are labourers and do what most Afghan refugees do in Iran, which is carpen…

  

  Hasan Noori / Afghanistan, Iran / Feature Documentary

• The Return Of The Jerboas

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Algeria, 2000. Hakim, a young doctor, arrives in the desert. He moves in with Ammar's family wh…

  

  Amira Géhanne Khalfallah / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• They

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Fourteen-year-old J goes by the pronoun ‘They” and lives with their parents in the suburbs of C…

  

  Anahita Ghazvinizadeh / Iran, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Third Hand

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Zineb just passed her baccalaureate. Like all the young girls in the area, she wants to study i…

  

  Hicham Elladdaqi / Morocco, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• This Haunting Memory That Is Not My Own

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  A family finds itself violently ripped apart from their native home and thrown into the sea, in…

  

  Panos Aprahamian / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• This Is Congo

  Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  'This Is Congo’ is an unblinking, unfiltered look into one of the world’s longest-standing ongo…

  

  Daniel McCabe / United States of America, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Canada, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• To All Naked Men

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  The war in Syria is drawing to an end, and the first reliable election stands on the ruins of t…

  

  Bassam Chekhes / Syria, Netherlands, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• To Live To Sing

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Zhao Li is the manager of a small Sichuan Opera troupe of 11 members living and performing toge…

  

  Johnny Ma / China, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Underdown

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Moving to Beirut’s anarchic rhythm, ‘Underdown’ follows the struggles of a Palestinian cab driv…

  

  Sarah Kaskas / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Unknown Saint

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Young Amine steals a large sum of money and escapes into the hills with the police hot on his t…

  

  Alaa Eddine Aljem / Morocco, 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 Wall

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  In this engaging and endearing short, director Odette Makhlouf Mouarkech locates a seemingly im…

  

  Odette Makhlouf Mouarkech / Lebanon, 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

• Watch Before Deletion

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  An episode of a radio show revisiting the life of an Arab music icon takes an unexpected turn w…

  

  Mohammad Shawky Hassan / Egypt, Germany, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Waves

  Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  Before he came to power, a fortune teller told Hosni Mubarak that he would reach a powerful pos…

  

  Ahmed Nour / Egypt, Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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