• Go Home

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Nada is going home. Or at least she wants to. When she returns to Lebanon, she realises she's a…

  

  Jihane Chouaib / Lebanon, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Her Mother's Daughter

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Tamara, sexy and sparkling, is a professor of biology at the American University of Beirut. She…

  

  Dima El-Horr / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Honey Cigar

  Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  France, 1993. Selma, a sharp, 18-year-old Algerian girl, lives in a mostly Catholic suburb of P…

  

  Kamir Aïnouz / France, Algeria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Horseed

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Basketball, one of the oldest and most popular games among Somali women, is now an endangered s…

  

  Hana Mire / Somalia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Sweden, Congo, Republic of, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• 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

• Joint Possession

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Tangier topography is in turmoil. Pharaonic real estate projects surround the Mansouria, a land…

  

  Leila Kilani / Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates, 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 Last Queen

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  It is the year 1516. Algiers is a small Arabian-Berber republic, suffocated by the Spaniards, w…

  

  Damien Ounouri / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Motherhood

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Salha, the matriarch of a farming family in the remote north of Tunisia, is overjoyed when her…

  

  Meryam Joobeur / Tunisia, Canada, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Mothers

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Twenty years ago, Mahjouba Edbouche founded the association "Oum al Banine" (Mother of Children…

  

  BAKIR Myriam / France, Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Mustang

  Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  A village by the Black Sea, far from Istanbul. When they play a game in which they sit on boys’…

  

  Deniz Gamze Ergüven / Turkey, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Ouaga Girls

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  The sun shines over an open garage in Burkina Faso’s capital, where Bintou is lacquering a car…

  

  Theresa Traore Dahlberg / Burkina Faso, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Papicha

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Algeria, 1990s—Nedjma is a free-spirited and independent young student. She refuses to allow th…

  

  Mounia Meddour / Algeria, France, Belgium, 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

• Playtime

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Matthew lives with his mother, an army secretary, in Ahmadi, Kuwait. One night, she leaves him…

  

  Hamad Al-Tourah / Kuwait, Qatar / Short Narrative

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