• Algiers by Night

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  The sun sets over the Bay of Algiers. The city walls start to lose their shiny white, making ro…

  

  Yanis Koussim / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Aïcha Bonheur

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Aïcha, a young long-distance runner, is pursuing her Olympic dream. Her brother Omar, a decent…

  

  Hakim Belabbes / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Birds of September

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production/Post-Production Stage

  Hiding behind the glass of his moving bubble, the narrator explores the streets of Beirut while…

  

  Sarah Francis / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Blessed Benefit

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Ahmad, a construction worker, gets tangled up in an unfortunate business deal that lands him in…

  

  Mahmoud Al Massad / Jordan, Netherlands, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Control

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  In the state TV control room, the technical team is preparing for what is arguably the most imp…

  

  Mohamed Adeeb / Egypt, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Cursed Be the Phosphate

  Spring Grant 2012 -

  On 5 January 2008, a sit-in organised by a group of unemployed youths in front of the town hall…

  

  Sami Tlili / Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Day I Lost My Shadow

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  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

• Embers

  Spring Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  A dialogue between two generations is represented by Tamara, the grandchild of an older Tamara…

  

  Tamara Stepanyan / Armenia, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Foreign Son

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Answering the call of his homeland, of which he retains only childhood memories, 50-year-old Om…

  

  Abdallah Badis / Algeria, France, 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

• Gaza 36mm

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  There are no longer any cinemas in Gaza due to the force of fundamentalist Islam, which sees th…

  

  Khalil El-Muzayen / Palestine, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Her Mother's Daughter

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Tamara, sexy and sparkling, is a professor of biology at the American University of Beirut. She…

  

  Dima El-Horr / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• IZRIQAQ

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  In a land dotted with killing machines, Yassine finds an easy cover-up for his crime. But even…

  

  Rama Mari / Palestine, Norway, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Line of Sight

  Spring Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  The film opens with a single shot showing a confrontation between Laila and Sami. Laila, a 22-y…

  

  Aseel Mansour / Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Matoub Lounès: The Story of a Legend

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  In the Berber-speaking world, Kabyle singer Matoub Lounès is a legend. Assassinated in 1998, he…

  

  Régine Abadia / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• One Week Ago, Today

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Off the coast of a small fishing town in the south of Lebanon, a man in his 40s is found uncons…

  

  Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia / Lebanon, United States of America, 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

• Professor

  Spring Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  In 1977, Khalil Khalsawi, a constitutional law teacher in Tunis, is commissioned by the governi…

  

  Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Salaam Plenty

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  'Salaam Plenty' is about the memory and erasure of the presence of Afghan cameleers in Australi…

  

  Samira (Yasmine) Kassari / Morocco, Australia, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Shelter

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Ahmad struggles to survive in the ghettos of Beirut. He cannot remember his past or where he ca…

  

  Kasem Kharsa / Lebanon, Qatar, Iraq, Egypt / Feature Narrative

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