• Sofia

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Sofia lives with her parents in Casablanca. Suffering from pregnancy denial, she finds herself…

  

  Meryem Benm’Barek / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Son

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Tunisia, Summer 2011. Fares, Meriem, and their 10-year-old son Aziz are a modern and happy Tuni…

  

  Mehdi Barsaoui / Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Son of a Dog

  Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  Set against the backdrop of a never-ending war, ‘Son of a Dog’ is the coming-of-age story of 17…

  

  Alain Sauma / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• South Terminal

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  In a Mediterranean country descending into insecurity and armed conflict, a doctor strives to d…

  

  Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche / France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Stable Unstable

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  It is December 31 in Beirut. Seven people are visiting their psychologists, clinging to the hop…

  

  Mahmoud Hojeij / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Standstill

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Arihote is a Kanienkehaka photographer whose life is at a standstill. When he witnesses the mur…

  

  Majdi El-Omari / Canada, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Stateless

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Henia will give anything to mend her broken past and find her mother, from whom she has been se…

  

  Narjiss Nejjar / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Streams

  Fall Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  Amel works in a factory in Tunis. She lives with her alcoholic husband Tahar, a former local fo…

  

  Mehdi Hmili / Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• TV Society

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  The airing of the Arabic version of an international dating TV show, that offers a panel of wom…

  

  Robert Cremona / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Tangier Stories

  Fall Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  In contemporary Morocco, Hayat brings Soussen, her 12-year-old daughter, from their poor villag…

  

  Fyzal Boulifa / France, Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Taste of Apples Is Red

  Fall Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  In the wake of fierce battles of the Syrian Civil War, old Mustafa crosses the border, and retu…

  

  Ehab Tarabieh / Syria, United States of America, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Alleys

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  In a claustrophobic East Amman neighbourhood, where life is dictated by gossip and violence, Al…

  

  Bassel Ghandour / Jordan, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Names Of The Flowers

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  As Bolivia stages the 50th anniversary of the death of “great Che Guevara”, Julia an old countr…

  

  Bahman Tavoosi / Canada, United States of America, Bolivia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Return Of The Jerboas

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Algeria, 2000. Hakim, a young doctor, arrives in the desert. He moves in with Ammar's family wh…

  

  Amira Géhanne Khalfallah / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Woodman

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  A surreal feature film with a thriller theme, and a life-sized wooden dummy as the protagonist,…

  

  Koutaiba Al-Janabi / Iraq, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Theeb

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Arabia, 1916. Theeb [Wolf] lives with his Bedouin tribe in a forgotten corner of the Ottoman Em…

  

  Naji Abu Nowar / Jordan, United Kingdom, Qatar, United Arab Emirates / Feature Narrative

• They

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Fourteen-year-old J goes by the pronoun ‘They” and lives with their parents in the suburbs of C…

  

  Anahita Ghazvinizadeh / Iran, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Timbuktu

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Timbuktu, a historic and multicultural city in the West African nation of Mali, is taken over b…

  

  Abderrahmane Sissako / France, Mauritania, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Tlamess

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Following the death of his mother, "S", a young Tunisian soldier, returns home. He deserts the…

  

  Ala Eddine Slim / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• To All Naked Men

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  The war in Syria is drawing to an end, and the first reliable election stands on the ruins of t…

  

  Bassam Chekhes / Syria, Netherlands, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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