• Plum Season

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Nouha, a 16-year-old teenager, lives in a close relationship with her mother. Her father reappe…

  

  Rim Mejdi / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Poisonous Roses

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Twenty-eight-year-old Taheya works as a washroom cleaner, and lives with her 22-year-old brothe…

  

  Fawzi Saleh / Egypt, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Queen of the Hoggar (working title)

  Spring Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  Kella, a young princess, and her elder sister are forced to leave their home because of war. Th…

  

  Mohannad Ahmed Muhammad Alamin / Libya, 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

• A Road to Damascus

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Gunshots ring out. A bus from Beirut to Damascus crashes. The only witness is a young botanist…

  

  Meedo Taha / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Searching For Kikhia (working Title)

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Director Jihan Kikhia was only six years old when her father was abducted. Widely considered on…

  

  Jihan Kikhia / Libya, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Sister

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  In a small town in present-day Bulgaria, a mother and her two daughters are struggling to survi…

  

  Svetla Tsotsorkova / Bulgaria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Speed Sisters

  Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Meet Marah, Mona, Betty, Noor and Maysoon – the first all-woman rally-racing team in the Middle…

  

  Amber Fares / Palestine, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• That Which Is Coming

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  ‘That Which Is Coming’ is an experimental video installation shot with a Phantom camera. It exp…

  

  Sophia Al-Maria / Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• The Time Tree

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Based on the children’s novel by the best-selling author Enid Richemont, 'The Time Tree' is a s…

  

  Celine Cotran / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Short 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

• Under the Shadow

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  A victim of the post-revolution state crackdown on dissidents, one-time medical student Shideh…

  

  Babak Anvari / Iran, United Kingdom, Jordan, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Walls and People

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  This film is a cry from the heart of the Medina of Casablanca for its inhabitants and their mem…

  

  Dalila Ennadre / Morocco, Algeria, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• We Have Never Been Kids

  Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Since 2003, Mahmood Soliman has tracked the subjects of his​ ​2003 documentary ‘Living Among Us…

  

  Mahmood Soliman / Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• X Kids

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  X kids are children born in Algeria out of wedlock, or as a result of terrorist marriages, ince…

  

  Safinez Bousbia / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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