• Beirut of the Balkans

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production/Post-Production Stage

  Sarajevo has gone through historical stages that parallel those of Beirut: the old town, the he…

  

  Nicolas Khoury / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• Beretta

  Fall Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  Suad, a mute Egyptian woman, is constantly harassed by the old men of Cairo and one day decides…

  

  Sophia Al-Maria / Qatar, Egypt, United Arab Emirates / Feature Narrative

• Burning Birds

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  1989. A small village in eastern Sri Lanka. After her husband is abducted, tortured and murdere…

  

  Sanjeewa Pushpakumara / Sri Lanka, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• By the Time It Gets Dark

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  By the Time It Gets Dark’ tells the interwoven stories of several characters: a film director a…

  

  Anocha Suwichakornpong / Thailand, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Hedi

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Hedi is a simple young man. He is not very talkative or reactive and does not expect much from…

  

  Mohamed Ben Attia / Tunisia, Belgium, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• History of Fear

  Fall Grant 2013 - Post-Production Stage

  Pola spends his days trimming grass and taking care of a football court in a gated community in…

  

  Benjamin Naishtat / Argentina, Uruguay, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Holy Cow

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Tapdig has what seems like a perfectly straightforward wish – to obtain a cow from Europe – for…

  

  Imamaddin Hasanov / Azerbaijan, Germany, Romania, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• House Without Roof

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  ‘House Without Roof’ tells the journey of Alan, Jan and Liya, three siblings born in the Kurdis…

  

  Soleen Yusef / Iraq, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Invasion

  Fall Grant 2013 - Post-Production Stage

  On the night of 20 December, 1989, the USA launched a massive invasion of otherwise peaceful Pa…

  

  Abner Benaim / Panama, Argentina, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Lamb

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  As ‘Lamb’ opens, nine-year-old Ephraïm (an affecting As ‘Lamb’ opens, nine-year-old Ephraïm (an…

  

  Yared Zeleke / France, Ethiopia, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Land

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  The Denetclaws are a Native American family who live on the Prairie Wolf Indian Reservation. Ne…

  

  Babak Jalali / United Kingdom, Italy, France, Netherlands, Mexico, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Memory Exercises

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Between 1954 and 1989, Paraguay suffered one of the longest dictatorships in Latin America: 35…

  

  Paz Encina / Paraguay, Argentina, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Men in the Sun

  Fall Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  Chatila, Fatah and Abu-Love, three Palestinian refugees, dream of escaping Athens after seven y…

  

  Mahdi Fleifel / Palestine, Greece, United Kingdom, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Mountain

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Day breaks on the eighth floor in a suburban neighbourhood of Lisbon and 14-year-old David’s gr…

  

  João Salaviza / Portugal, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production/Post-Production Stage

  What is left today from the Palestinian revolution are some images and sounds, pieces of film s…

  

  Mohanad Yaqubi / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Samir in the Dust

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  I always liked smugglers because they are playing with borders. But, I soon realized that the o…

  

  Mohamed Ouzine / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Servants

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Nabil is the guard of an old villa located by the mouth of a river. Sayed Walid, an influential…

  

  Marwan Khneisser / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Siren of Faso Fani

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Through the eyes of former workers at the once-famous cotton factory in Burkina Faso, ‘The Sire…

  

  Michel K. Zongo / Burkina Faso, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Taste of Apples Is Red

  Fall Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  In the wake of fierce battles of the Syrian Civil War, old Mustafa crosses the border, and retu…

  

  Ehab Tarabieh / Syria, United States of America, Palestine, Qatar / Feature 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

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