• Abou Leila

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Algeria, 1994. Terrorist attacks have ravaged the north of the country for the past two years.…

  

  Amin Sidi-Boumédiène / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Amal

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Amal, an angry teenager, comes of age in a post-revolution Egypt that is undergoing tremendous…

  

  Mohamed Siam / Egypt, Lebanon, France, Germany, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Ava

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Ava’s first visit to the gynaecologist with her mother is a traumatic experience for the young…

  

  Sadaf Foroughi / Iran, Canada, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Black Veil

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Many women around the world suffer under oppression and dream of escaping it. ‘The Black Veil’…

  

  A.J. Al-Thani / Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Blessed

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Algiers, a few years after the Civil War. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their 20th w…

  

  Sofia Djama / Algeria, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Days of Grace

  Spring Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  A young Syrian man is faced with a dilemma: he has only a few days to leave Beirut to go abroad…

  

  Saleh Nass / Bahrain, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Disappearance

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  In an Iranian culture that operates within strict social mores, Sara, a university student, and…

  

  Ali Asgari / Iran, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Don't Tell a Soul

  Spring Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  Faris, a Lebanese Muslim living in the US, awakens to discover the dead body of his wife’s ex-h…

  

  Nour Wazzi / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• FIRE

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Surviving in Algeria is a constant challenge that leaves the nation’s population without hope.…

  

  Meriem Achour Bouakkaz / Algeria, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Horseed

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Basketball, one of the oldest and most popular games among Somali women, is now an endangered s…

  

  Hana Mire / Somalia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Sweden, Congo, Republic of, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Inside Me

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  A young Egyptian girl living with a conservative group that follows communal acts and practices…

  

  Halla Tarek / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Joint Possession

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Tangier topography is in turmoil. Pharaonic real estate projects surround the Mansouria, a land…

  

  Leila Kilani / Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Last Day at Home

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  A 12- year-old boy has just moved to Doha with his parents. To avoid dealing with the changes t…

  

  Noor Al-Nasr / Qatar / Short Narrative

• A Man on Fire

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  The story of a man who was born and raised in a modest environment and aspired to be a superher…

  

  Ibrahim Harb / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Mnemosyne

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  On a quest to remember, Shaza returns to her hometown of Alexandria, a decision triggered by th…

  

  Shaza Moharam / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Night

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  While searching for sleepless souls, a storyteller finds a woman standing in front of her door,…

  

  Ahmad Saleh / Palestine, Jordan, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Nothingwood

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  About a hundred kilometres away from Kabul, Salim Shaheen, the most popular and prolific actor-…

  

  Sonia Kronlund / France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• On the Crossbar

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  In June of 1978, Tunisia entered the international football scene as the first African team eve…

  

  Sami Tlili / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Our Madness

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Lucy is hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital in Mozambique. She dreams about her little son,…

  

  João Viana / Portugal, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Papicha

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Algeria, 1990s—Nedjma is a free-spirited and independent young student. She refuses to allow th…

  

  Mounia Meddour / Algeria, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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