• Handala, The Boy Without A Face

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Handala, the refugee Palestinian child, appeared in thousands of political caricatures to shed…

  

  Mahmoud Kaabour / Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• Hitch 60 (working title)

  Spring Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  Two mod girls from South-East London embark on a journey across continents, travelling away fro…

  

  Sara Al Obaidly / Qatar, United Kingdom, Turkey / Feature Documentary

• Holy Cow

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Tapdig has what seems like a perfectly straightforward wish – to obtain a cow from Europe – for…

  

  Imamaddin Hasanov / Azerbaijan, Germany, Romania, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Home Sweet Home

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  The filmmaker’s father spent 40 years as the director of a secular school he founded in Beirut’…

  

  Nadine Naous / France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Home There..Cinema Here

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  An abandoned movie theatre. Sound and image buried in dust. A waft of light spills over broken…

  

  Nidal Al Dibs / Egypt, Qatar, Syria / 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

• House in the Fields

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  High in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, life in an isolated rural Amazigh community has changed…

  

  Tala Hadid / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• Ibrahim, a Fate to Define

  Fall Grant 2015 -

  Ibrahim Alabed, my father, was a secret member of the Revolutionary Council, a Palestinian mili…

  

  Lina Alabed / Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• In the Claws of a Century Wanting

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Anne gives birth to her third child. Akira learns reading and writing while foraging for scrap…

  

  Jewel Maranan / Philippines, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• In this Land Lay Graves of Mine

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production/Post-Production Stage

  In 2009, I sold my land in my village in South Lebanon to a Muslim, stirring a sectarian discou…

  

  Reine Mitri / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• 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

• Janitou

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  In Algeria in the mid-1980s, during a period of intense political and social unrest, the Bollyw…

  

  Amine Hattou / Algeria, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Kashkash

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  In a region torn apart by wars, migration, mandates, and cultural diversity, we discovered an u…

  

  Lea Najjar / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• 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

• Liyana

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Liyana is a young, fictional girl created by several young orphans in Swaziland, where the scou…

  

  Aaron Kopp, Amanda Kopp / Swaziland, Qatar, United States of America / Feature Documentary

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