• 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

• Cinema Palestine

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  This film will focus on the ‘fourth wave’ of Palestinian cinema, running from 1980 to the prese…

  

  Tim Schwab / Palestine, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• City of Jade

  Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  When the war between the Myanmar army and the KIA broke out, the corporations fled the mines. H…

  

  Midi Z / Myanmar, Taiwan, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• City of the Sun

  Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Imagined as a city of the future during the Soviet era, the once-celebrated manganese-mining to…

  

  Rati Oneli / Georgia, United States of America, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Colonel's Stray Dogs

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  

  Khalid Shamis / Libya, South Africa, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• A Comedian in a Syrian Tragedy

  Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  This chronicle of an uprising and of exile begins in the early months of the Syrian revolution,…

  

  Rami Farah / Syria, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Constructions

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Pedro, an ageing security guard, patrols a deserted construction site in Córdoba, Argentina. Ac…

  

  Fernando Martín Restelli / Argentina, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Crayons of Askalan

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  A creative documentary based on the powerful story of the Palestinian artist Zuhdi Al Adawi. IN…

  

  Laila Hotait Salas / Lebanon, Spain, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• Damascus My First Kiss

  Spring Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  When I got my first period, my mother kissed me and said with a smile: “Now you are a woman. Yo…

  

  Lina Alabed / Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• A Deep Long Breath

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  In 18 days, the January 25 Egyptian Revolution toppled a three-decade-old dictatorship and Egyp…

  

  Tahani Rached / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Democracy Year Zero

  Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  Four weeks. That is how long it took the Tunisian people to overthrow the dictator Zine El Abid…

  

  Amira Chebli, Christophe Cotteret / Tunisia, Belgium, France, 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

• Displaced in Heaven

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  The repetition of history and the passing on of collective and individual traumas from generati…

  

  Khaled Jarrar / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Do You Love Me

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  ‘Do You Love Me’, named after the widely popular Bendaly Family song that was released in 1978…

  

  Lana Daher / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Dona Césaria

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Césaria Evora is an internationally renowned singer whose voice rings with the culture, ambienc…

  

  Dima Al-Joundi / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Dream Away

  Spring Grant 2014 - Development Stage

  Representing freedom and easy cash, Sharm El Sheikh has long been a dream destination for Egypt…

  

  Marouan Omara, Johanna Domke / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Egypt's Modern Pharaohs

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  On January 25, 1952, downtown Cairo was burnt down: angry mobs demanded the departure of Britis…

  

  Jihan El Tahri / Egypt, France, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Egyptian Jeanne d'Arc

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  ‘Egyptian Jeanne d’Arc’ is a creative documentary that explores issues of female emancipation i…

  

  Iman Kamel / Kuwait, Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

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