• I Used to Sleep on the Rooftop

  Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Nuhad, a 53-year-old Syrian woman, had never left Syria until the war made her reconsider her e…

  

  Angie Obeid / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Idea of a Lake

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Inés, a 35 year-old photographer, is expecting a child and is in an emotionally vulnerable stat…

  

  Milagros Mumenthaler / Switzerland, Argentina, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Invasion

  Fall Grant 2013 - Post-Production Stage

  On the night of 20 December, 1989, the USA launched a massive invasion of otherwise peaceful Pa…

  

  Abner Benaim / Panama, Argentina, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Invented Biography

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Arturo Belano, alter ego of the writer Roberto Bolaño, shared with his creator a significant pa…

  

  Nicolás Lasnibat / France, Chile, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Ismail

  Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  In 1949, Ismail, a young Palestinian, struggles to support his family after their expulsion to…

  

  Nora Alsharif / Jordan, Palestine, United Kingdom, Qatar / Short Narrative

• It Comes By Night (Aswang)

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  When men turn up dead, the old folks whisper of the "aswang"—a shapeshifting beast from folklor…

  

  Alyx Ayn Arumpac / Philippines, France, Norway, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• The Journey

  Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Baghdad, 30 December, 2006. Sara, an unassuming young woman, enters Baghdad’s central train sta…

  

  Mohamed Jabarah Al Daradji / Iraq, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Kashta

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Out in the beautiful quiet of the windswept dunes, a man teaches his young sons the traditional…

  

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

• The Last of Us

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  N crosses the desert to North Africa, intending to obtain illegal passage to Europe. After he i…

  

  Ala Eddine Slim / Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Lebanese Rocket Society

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  When filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige inadvertently discovered that their native…

  

  Khalil Joreige, Joana Hadjithomas / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Liborio

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Liborio is a peasant who is lost in a hurricane and takes shelter in a cave. When his township…

  

  Fernando Martinez Sosa / Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Light Sounds

  Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Inseparable, if not by choice, two Sri Lankans work as cleaners at a mosque in Qatar. Lazy and…

  

  Karem Kamel / 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

• Listen to the Silence

  Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Nine years old and almost always smiling, Luka lives in a boarding school for deaf children, wh…

  

  Mariam Chachia / Georgia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Lonely Rock

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Fidel is a fifty-year-old llama herder living in a sparsely populated community in the Argentin…

  

  Alejandro Telemaco Tarraf / Argentina, Mexico, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Loving Wallada

  Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  Wallada, the only child of one of the last Umayyad caliphs, al-Mustakfi murdered in 1025, asser…

  

  Nacer Khemir / Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Lust

  Spring Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  Umm Shooq has run away from her wealthy family to marry the man she loves and has settled into…

  

  Khaled El Hagar / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• MICA

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  12-year-old Saïd (Mica) sells grocery bags in souks. He lives with his mother and ailing father…

  

  Ismaël Ferroukhi / France, Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Madame Courage

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Omar, an unstable and lonely teenager, lives in a slum in the suburbs of the Algerian port city…

  

  Merzak Allouache / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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