• An Unusual Summer

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  My father installed a surveillance camera and recorded the scenes in front of the house, contin…

  

  Kamal Aljafari / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Birds of September

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production/Post-Production Stage

  Hiding behind the glass of his moving bubble, the narrator explores the streets of Beirut while…

  

  Sarah Francis / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• The Dam

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  North Sudan, Merowe Dam. Abu Salma, a seasonal worker from Darfur, works in a traditional brick…

  

  Ali Cherri / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Dancing Beirut

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  A group of dancers wander through Beirut, looking for spaces where they can generate visual, so…

  

  Alia Hamdan, Fares Chalabi / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Experimental Summer

  Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Both Mahmoud and Zeinab join in the search for the original version of an Egyptian film that wa…

  

  Mahmoud Lotfy / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• The Fifth Resurrection of Farid

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. An old man comes across an odd collection of film reels, vinyl recor…

  

  Khalid Youssef / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Firefly In The Darkness Of Time

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  I deal with the survival of memory and utopias, the ghosts of history that constantly reappear.…

  

  Djamel Kerkar / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• 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

• The Insomnia of a Serial Dreamer

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Facing his insomniac nature, the author of this film meets with several people, asking each one…

  

  Mohamad Soueid / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• It’s Far Away Where I Must Go

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  At the age of 70, my mother Aicha lost the notion of time and space. Forced to live in a nursin…

  

  Karima Saidi / Morocco, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Mnemosyne

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  On a quest to remember, Shaza returns to her hometown of Alexandria, a decision triggered by th…

  

  Shaza Moharam / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Nouss Nouss

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  ‘Nouss Nouss’ portrays an encounter between Western and Arab cultures via the story of a French…

  

  Leila Albayaty / Iraq, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production/Post-Production Stage

  What is left today from the Palestinian revolution are some images and sounds, pieces of film s…

  

  Mohanad Yaqubi / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• On Trials

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  The enacted. The robe. The absurd. Failed precedents. ‘On Trials’ is a film about realms of law…

  

  Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Ouroboros

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Diego Marcon is a man with a broken heart who journeys into the heart of the human condition on…

  

  Basma Alsharif / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Roundabout in My Head

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  While it may seem strange to think of an abattoir as a place of peace and beauty, ‘Roundabout…

  

  Hassen Ferhani / Algeria, France, Lebanon, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Temporarily

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Reham is a 24-year-old Syrian girl who studied acting in Syria. Because of the war there, she m…

  

  Reham Alkassar / Germany, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Watch Before Deletion

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  An episode of a radio show revisiting the life of an Arab music icon takes an unexpected turn w…

  

  Mohammad Shawky Hassan / Egypt, Germany, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• What's Your Story? Part I

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production/Post-Production Stage

  Jamal, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, meets five young Israelis with differing ideological pe…

  

  Jamal Khalaile, Pauline Carbonnier / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• The Wind Blew On

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  A boy is on a journey. Things have strayed from their course without anyone knowing why. The un…

  

  Katrín Ólafsdóttir / Iceland, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

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