• Beirut 1931

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  A man arrives in his native Jaffa after the sudden death of his uncle, who was kept in a mental…

  

  Kamal Aljafari / Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Beirut Hold'em

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Fresh out of prison, Ziko is ready to start a new life. Determined to win back Carole, the love…

  

  Michel Kammoun / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Beneath The Dunes

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Khalifa and Nasser are two cousins who have one bonding ritual: they camp out every weekend at…

  

  Mohammed Al Ibrahim / Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Beretta

  Fall Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  Suad, a mute Egyptian woman, is constantly harassed by the old men of Cairo and one day decides…

  

  Sophia Al-Maria / Qatar, Egypt, United Arab Emirates / Feature Narrative

• Birdshot

  Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Fifteen-year-old Maya works with her father on an isolated farm in the Philippines. While ventu…

  

  Mikhail Red / Philippines, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Black Frost

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  The plantations in Entre Ríos are being devastated by a frost. At the Lell brothers’ farm, wher…

  

  Maximiliano Schonfeld / Argentina, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Blessed

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Algiers, a few years after the Civil War. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their 20th w…

  

  Sofia Djama / Algeria, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Blessed Benefit

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Ahmad, a construction worker, gets tangled up in an unfortunate business deal that lands him in…

  

  Mahmoud Al Massad / Jordan, Netherlands, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Blue Bicycle

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Twelve-year-old Ali lives with his mother and sister. When not at school, he works at a tyre re…

  

  Ümit Köreken / Turkey, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Bombay Rose

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  ‘Bombay Rose’ is a musical romance set on the streets of Bombay, telling the story of Kamala an…

  

  Gitanjali Rao / India, France, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Bull Shark

  Spring Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  ‘Bull Shark’ is inspired by real events that took place during the second wave of economic grow…

  

  Mohammed Al Ibrahim / Qatar, Bahrain, United States of America / Feature Narrative

• Burning Birds

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  1989. A small village in eastern Sri Lanka. After her husband is abducted, tortured and murdere…

  

  Sanjeewa Pushpakumara / Sri Lanka, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• By the Time It Gets Dark

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  By the Time It Gets Dark’ tells the interwoven stories of several characters: a film director a…

  

  Anocha Suwichakornpong / Thailand, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Cactus Flower

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Aida, a struggling actress, came to Cairo from the Delta as a university student; like many oth…

  

  Hala Elkoussy / Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Cocote

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Alberto, a gardener who works in the city, travels to his hometown to attend the funeral of his…

  

  Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias / Dominican Republic, Argentina, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Costa Brava Lebanon

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Lebanon, 2028. The country is drowning in garbage, yet the Badri family leads an idyllic, isola…

  

  Mounia Akl / Lebanon, France, Sweden, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Daoud's Winter

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Iraq, winter 1988. Daoud, a young man from Baghdad, is drafted into the war with Iran. At the f…

  

  Koutaiba Al-Janabi / Iraq, Lebanon, Netherlands, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Dark Skull

  Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  After his father dies, Elder is forced to live with his grandmother – far away from the city –…

  

  Kiro Russo / Bolivia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Dark Wind

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Reko and Pero, a young Yazidi couple, prepare for family life in their village Boza. Suddenly,…

  

  Hussein Hassan / Iraq, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Daughters of Abdul-Rahman

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Single and middle-aged, Zainab lives a dreary existence as a local seamstress and her father’s…

  

  Zaid Abu Hamdan / Jordan, Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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