Fall Grants 2017
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To support an armed struggle, to protest peacefully, to flee or to document events: these are t…
Layla Abyad / Syria, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Bassel was a successful open source developer and hacker in Damascus. Paolo was a well-known pr…
Yasmin Fedda / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Set in a dystopian dollhouse, Jameela, a friendly little girl wants nothing more than to fit in…
Mayar Hamdan / Jordan, Qatar / Short Narrative
Khalifa and Nasser are two cousins who have one bonding ritual: they camp out every weekend at…
Mohammed Al Ibrahim / Qatar / Feature Narrative
Reem is a young Iraqi girl living in ISIS occupied Mosul. Her husband, an ISIS sympathizer, has…
A.J. Al-Thani / Qatar / Short Narrative
Ceuta is a Spanish enclave on Moroccan soil. It has, since the independence of the country, wit…
Randa Maroufi / Morocco, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay
‘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
Pedro, an ageing security guard, patrols a deserted construction site in Córdoba, Argentina. Ac…
Fernando Martín Restelli / Argentina, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Sana is a young mother struggling to raise her eight-year-old child in war-torn Syria in 2012.…
Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative
When Farid, a 60-year-old man who lives abroad, visits his wife in their Lebanese mountain home…
Sarah Francis / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative
The repetition of history and the passing on of collective and individual traumas from generati…
Khaled Jarrar / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary
Nour and Amine don’t know each other. They meet in a house, near the city of Timimoun, in the A…
Merzak Allouache / Algeria, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative
Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. An old man comes across an odd collection of film reels, vinyl recor…
Khalid Youssef / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay
16-year old teenager Abdou lives on the outskirts of Khouribga, a mining town exploiting phosph…
Mohamed Zineddaine / Morocco, Italy, Qatar / Feature Narrative
Hévi and Walat, a Kurdish-Syrian refugee couple in their thirties meet a human trafficker. They…
Mohammad Shaikhow / Syria, Iraq, France, Qatar / Short Narrative
When I landed in Canada in 2006, I became recognized as a giant walking plate of hummus. Being…
Rawane Nassif / Lebanon, Canada, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay
Arturo Belano, alter ego of the writer Roberto Bolaño, shared with his creator a significant pa…
Nicolás Lasnibat / France, Chile, Qatar / Feature Documentary
In a story of how courage transcends fear, a young American girl living in Le Var, France refle…
Sara Al-Thani / Qatar, France / Short Narrative
Vlada works as a truck driver during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporti…
Ognjen Glavonić / Serbia, France, Croatia, Iran, Qatar / Feature Narrative
In 2007, anonymous street artist and activist Banksy painted a number of politically divisive a…
Marco Proserpio / United Kingdom, Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary