• Adam

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-ye…

  

  Maryam Touzani / Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Barzakh (Working Title)

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Mariam and Noura find their old father dead in his house on the outskirts of the city of Ramall…

  

  Laila Abbas / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Behind Closed Doors

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Six-year-old Leila and her mother, Sara, have a close relationship. They live a comfortable lif…

  

  Hend Fakhroo / Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Chaos

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  ‘Chaos’ narrates the story of three women in three cities – three women who have given up on li…

  

  Sara Fattahi / Syria, Austria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Dream Away

  Spring Grant 2014 - Development Stage

  Representing freedom and easy cash, Sharm El Sheikh has long been a dream destination for Egypt…

  

  Marouan Omara, Johanna Domke / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Facing the Dragon

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  In a documentary filmed over four years, filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi intimately follows two uncon…

  

  Sedika Mojadidi / Afghanistan, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Freedom Fields

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  In post-revolution Libya, a group of women are brought together by one dream: to play football…

  

  Naziha Arebi / Libya, United Kingdom, United States of America, Netherlands, Canada, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Gubgub

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  After securing her first catch of the day while crab-hunting with her father and brother, brigh…

  

  Nouf Al Sulaiti / Qatar / Short Narrative

• 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

• T​he Maiden’s Pond

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  ‘The Maiden’s Pond’ tells the story of two women trying to maintain and negotiate their lives w…

  

  Bassem Breche / Lebanon, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Noura's Dream

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Noura meets the love of her life, Lassaad, while her husband, Sofiane, is in jail. She raises h…

  

  Hinde Boujemaa / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Sofia

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Sofia lives with her parents in Casablanca. Suffering from pregnancy denial, she finds herself…

  

  Meryem Benm’Barek / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Suspended Wives

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  After waiting for many years, Ghita, Latifa and Karima decide to turn to the courts in order to…

  

  Merieme Addou / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• 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

• You Don't Die Two Times

  Fall Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Jenny and Gift, two sisters respectively 22 and 28 years old, are in North Niger, waiting to tr…

  

  Ager Oueslati / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• You Will Die at Twenty

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  In a Sudanese village, a mother gives birth to Muzamel, a boy cursed by a Dervish prophecy that…

  

  Amjad Abu Alala / Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Zanka Contact

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Casablanca. Larsen, a self-destructive has-been rocker, meets Rajae, a singer with a golden voi…

  

  Ismaël El Iraki / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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