• Railway Men

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Four Tunisian railway employees are assigned to Line #1. They call it "the normal way" because…

  

  Erige Sehiri / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Railway Men

  Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  Tunisian railroaders call it “the normal way” because it is the only railroad in the country bu…

  

  Erige Sehiri / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Republic of Silence

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  She grew up in the lands of dictators and surveillance, where images are censored, photos are b…

  

  Diana El Jeiroudi / Syria, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• A Rifle and a Bag

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Somi and her husband Sukhram met and fell in love while fighting in the Naxalite commando, the…

  

  Cristina Hanes, Arya Rothe, Isabella Rinaldi / India, Romania, Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Rise of the Gulf / Beyond Black Gold

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Two films to tell the incredible tale of the metamorphosis of the Gulf’s emirates over the cour…

  

  Frédéric Compain / France, Qatar, Kuwait / Feature Documentary

• Roshmia

  Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Since 1956, when he became a refugee from downtown Haifa’s Wadi Alsaleeb neighbourhood, 80-year…

  

  Salim Abu Jabal / Palestine, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Rouge Parole

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  The Arab Spring erupted in a country where few would have expected, starting a political earthq…

  

  Elyes Baccar / Tunisia, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Salaam Plenty

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  'Salaam Plenty' is about the memory and erasure of the presence of Afghan cameleers in Australi…

  

  Samira (Yasmine) Kassari / Morocco, Australia, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Samir in the Dust

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  I always liked smugglers because they are playing with borders. But, I soon realized that the o…

  

  Mohamed Ouzine / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Scenes from a Revolt Sustained

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Examining the culture and history of Tunisia and how it has been mediated or ignored by the Wes…

  

  Kays Mejri, Matt Peterson / France, Tunisia, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• School Of Hope

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Climate change and overgrazing have brought poverty to the old nomad tribes of the High Plateau…

  

  Mohamed El Aboudi / Morocco, Finland, France, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Searching For Kikhia (working Title)

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Director Jihan Kikhia was only six years old when her father was abducted. Widely considered on…

  

  Jihan Kikhia / Libya, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Siren of Faso Fani

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Through the eyes of former workers at the once-famous cotton factory in Burkina Faso, ‘The Sire…

  

  Michel K. Zongo / Burkina Faso, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Sleepless nights

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Two people irrevocably changed by war come together in ‘Confession and Struggle,’ an unflinchin…

  

  Eliane Raheb / Lebanon, France, United Arab Emirates, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Somebody Clap for Me

  Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  This poetic rollercoaster ride chronicles Ugandan youth reclaiming their right to a voice by br…

  

  Luciana Ceccatto Farah / Brazil, Uganda, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Speak So I Can See You

  Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  Set at the intersection of an observational documentary and an audio-visual experiment, this fi…

  

  Marija Stojnic / Serbia, Croatia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Speed Sisters

  Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Meet Marah, Mona, Betty, Noor and Maysoon – the first all-woman rally-racing team in the Middle…

  

  Amber Fares / Palestine, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Still Recording

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Two young artists, Saeed Al Batal and Ghiath Ayoub become embroiled in the events of the besieg…

  

  Saeed Al Batal, Ghiath Ayoub / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Stronger than a Bullet

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, war propaganda has been Iran’s largest industry. In the n…

  

  Maryam Ebrahimi / Iran, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Suspended Wives

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  After waiting for many years, Ghita, Latifa and Karima decide to turn to the courts in order to…

  

  Merieme Addou / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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