• 7 KM - Seven Kilometers

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  1992, somewhere in Algeria. Omar and Othman, two boys from the same poor village, walk the seve…

  

  Oussama Benhassine / Algeria, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Bastardo

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  ‘Bastardo’ is the story of Mohsen, ‘the bastard’, whose origins and history are unknown. He was…

  

  Nejib Belkadhi / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Cinema Palestine

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  This film will focus on the ‘fourth wave’ of Palestinian cinema, running from 1980 to the prese…

  

  Tim Schwab / Palestine, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Crayons of Askalan

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  A creative documentary based on the powerful story of the Palestinian artist Zuhdi Al Adawi. IN…

  

  Laila Hotait Salas / Lebanon, Spain, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Days of Tyranny

  Fall Grant 2011 -

  In a border town set in an unnamed Arab country ruled by a ruthless dictatorship, Hana, a mothe…

  

  Katia Jarjoura / Canada, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Deep Long Breath

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  In 18 days, the January 25 Egyptian Revolution toppled a three-decade-old dictatorship and Egyp…

  

  Tahani Rached / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Forgotten

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Mustafa steals across the Israeli border with the help of a local smuggler. This is a one-way t…

  

  Ehab Tarabieh / Syria, Qatar / Short Narrative

• From a City with No Images

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production/Post-Production Stage

  Many images... First: A woman looks at a book of pictures. She cries. 'Have you seen what they…

  

  Sabine El Chamaa / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• 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

• Home Sweet Home

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  The filmmaker’s father spent 40 years as the director of a secular school he founded in Beirut’…

  

  Nadine Naous / France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Lebanese Rocket Society

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  When filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige inadvertently discovered that their native…

  

  Khalil Joreige, Joana Hadjithomas / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Maghrebim

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  The director returns to the roots of his family’s history, starting from footage his parents fi…

  

  Ivan Boccara / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Maqloubeh

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Five young art students awake to the sound of gunfire and bombardment. As the electricity has b…

  

  Nicolas Damuni / Palestine, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• My Brother

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  An artist and painter in his 40s, Mo Bensalah is a Moroccan immigrant’s son. We see his essence…

  

  Kamal El Mahouti / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• My Love Awaits Me by the Sea

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  ‘My Love Awaits Me by the Sea’ is a poetic documentary that narrates the story of its director,…

  

  Mais Darwazah / Jordan, Palestine, Qatar, Germany / Feature Documentary

• On The Road To Downtown

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  Through the lives of the characters and their simple daily details, we discover together the do…

  

  Sherif El Bendary / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Playground Chronicles

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Brahim and his family are of Moroccan descent, and live on the grounds of a crane construction…

  

  Brahim Fritah / France, Qatar, Morocco / Feature Narrative

• Red Olive Tree

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  The Belmakis, an upper-middle-class family in France, appear to lead a trouble-free life; all,…

  

  Karim Bensalah / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Reverence for Spiders

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  New York-based imam Omar Metwally develops an unlikely friendship with the homeless teenager wh…

  

  Faiza Ambah / Saudi Arabia, United States of America, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Rouge Parole

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  The Arab Spring erupted in a country where few would have expected, starting a political earthq…

  

  Elyes Baccar / Tunisia, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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