• 143 Sahara Street

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Malika lives alone in the middle of the desert. There she runs a small restaurant serving two d…

  

  Hassen Ferhani / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 200 Meters

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Mustafa and his wife Salwa come from two Palestinian villages that are only 200 meters apart, b…

  

  Ameen Nayfeh / Palestine, Jordan, France, Germany, Italy, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Adam

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-ye…

  

  Maryam Touzani / Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Behind Closed Doors

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Six-year-old Leila and her mother, Sara, have a close relationship. They live a comfortable lif…

  

  Hend Fakhroo / Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Blue Star

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  A husband and wife are separated only by language; he speaks Arabic while she speaks French and…

  

  Valentin Noujaïm / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• Brotherhood

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Mohamed is a hardened shepherd living in rural Tunisia with his wife and two sons. His life is…

  

  Meryam Joobeur / Canada, Tunisia, Qatar, Sweden / Short Narrative

• The Cave

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  To escape the ongoing aerial bombardment on hospitals and chemical weapon attacks that killed m…

  

  Feras Fayyad / Syria, Denmark, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Children of the Famine

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Between 1915 and 1918, a famine killed an estimated two hundred thousand people, almost half of…

  

  Reine Mitri / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Devil's Drivers

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  The southern West Bank with its beautiful landscapes is home to many Palestinian Bedouins. In t…

  

  Daniel Carsenty, Mohammed Abugeth / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Facing the Dragon

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  In a documentary filmed over four years, filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi intimately follows two uncon…

  

  Sedika Mojadidi / Afghanistan, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Freedom Fields

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  At the new dawn of a nation once cut off from the world, a dynamic group of women from fracture…

  

  Naziha Arebi / Libya, United Kingdom, Netherlands, United States of America, Qatar, Lebanon, Canada / Feature Documentary

• Gevar's Land

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Over four seasons, we follow the labour-filled days of Gevar, a Syrian refugee, whose small gar…

  

  Qutaiba Barhamji / Syria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Girl Made Of Dust

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  In a village of the Lebanese Chouf, ten-year-old Ruba lives in a dream world filled with witche…

  

  Hiam Abbass / Palestine, Lebanon, France, Germany, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Gubgub

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  After securing her first catch of the day while crab-hunting with her father and brother, brigh…

  

  Nouf Al Sulaiti / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Haifa Street

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  It’s 2006 and Baghdad is ravaged by sectarian violence. Haifa Street is the epicentre of the co…

  

  Mohanad Hayal / Iraq, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Harvest

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  A young woman walks out of the Beirut airport alone and makes her way back home to her parents’…

  

  Ely Dagher / Lebanon, France, Belgium, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Heights

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Abdul’Rohim and his friends are young Rohingyas fleeing persecution in Myanmar to find refuge i…

  

  Faïza Yakoubi / Algeria, Romania, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• How My Grandmother Became A Chair

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  The heartless sea is relentlessly approaching poor grandmother’s house. By losing her five sens…

  

  Nicolas Fattouh / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Interpret

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  After living a relatively normal life as a student studying in Berlin, Hassan reluctantly accep…

  

  Ali Kareem Obaid / Iraq, Italy, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Last Queen

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  It is the year 1516. Algiers is a small Arabian-Berber republic, suffocated by the Spaniards, w…

  

  Damien Ounouri / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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