• Hope

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  The short film ‘Hope’ is about a newborn baby sea turtle named Aqua, born with a disability of…

  

  Abdulla Al Jananhi / Qatar / Short Narrative

• A House in Jerusalem

  Spring Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  In the hope of fulfilling their life-long desire of living in the Holy Land, a Jewish American…

  

  Muayad Alayan / Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Housekeeping

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Farida, a strong-willed Egyptian woman in her 50s, is a cleaning lady who works and lives in an…

  

  Mazen Khaled / Lebanon, Egypt, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• I, Hummus

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  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

• In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive And You Were Full Of Joy

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Layal, a young Lebanese girl, finds the gap between her daily life and internal state is growin…

  

  Remi Itani / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• In Vitro

  Fall Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  In a converted nuclear reactor, 70-year-old Dunia, the dying founder of a hi-tech orchard, pass…

  

  Larissa Sansour / Palestine, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature 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

• James Dean and Me

  Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  In 1967, in the shadow of the looming Arab-Israeli War, a Palestinian teenager watches James De…

  

  Sameh Zoabi / Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Lemon Hart

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  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

• The Life of Abdulla (working title)

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  In these ten 18-minute episodes, we’ll take a journey through ‘Made in Arabia’ to explore what…

  

  Abdulla Al Abdulla / Qatar / TV Series

• Longer Will Be The Night

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Nora learns that the Algerian government is planning to compensate victims of rape from during…

  

  Latifa Said / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Looking for the Man with the Camera

  Spring Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  "Looking for the Man with the Camera" is a journey that takes the narrator from Geneva to the…

  

  Boutheyna Bouslama / France, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Machtat

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Mahdia, Tunisia. In the neighbourhood of Bir Beranek, everybody knows each other. Fatma, her tw…

  

  Sonia Ben Slama / France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Mama, Where Are You?

  Fall Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Abbas is a 37-year-old bachelor who still lives with his parents in Kuwait. Passive, immature,…

  

  Meqdad Al-Kout / Kuwait, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Maqloubeh

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Five young art students awake to the sound of gunfire and bombardment. As the electricity has b…

  

  Nicolas Damuni / Palestine, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Marjoun is 17 years old and an outsider in her home of Little Rock, Arkansas. While her father…

  

  Susan Youssef / Lebanon, Netherlands, United States of America, 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

• Me Myself and Murdoch

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Ahmad is a 22-year-old Palestinian from a conservative Muslim family in Hebron. With his friend…

  

  Yahya Alabdallah / Palestine, Jordan, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Meskoun

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  While attempting to enter Europe, Lotfi Meskini drowns with seven other unfortunate illegal imm…

  

  Hicham Lasri / Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt, Qatar / TV Series

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