• History of Fear

  Fall Grant 2013 - Post-Production Stage

  Pola spends his days trimming grass and taking care of a football court in a gated community in…

  

  Benjamin Naishtat / Argentina, Uruguay, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Honey Cigar

  Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  France, 1993. Selma, a sharp, 18-year-old Algerian girl, lives in a mostly Catholic suburb of P…

  

  Kamir Aïnouz / France, Algeria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• House Without Roof

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  ‘House Without Roof’ tells the journey of Alan, Jan and Liya, three siblings born in the Kurdis…

  

  Soleen Yusef / Iraq, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A House in Jerusalem

  Spring Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  In the hope of fulfilling their life-long desire of living in the Holy Land, a Jewish American…

  

  Muayad Alayan / Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Housekeeping

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Farida, a strong-willed Egyptian woman in her 50s, is a cleaning lady who works and lives in an…

  

  Mazen Khaled / Lebanon, Egypt, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Houston, We Have a Problem!

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  In 1948, a space programme was established in Yugoslavia, based on the diaries and technical pl…

  

  Žiga Virc / Slovenia, Germany, Croatia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Hunting Season

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  After his mother dies, 17-year-old Nahuel is shipped from Buenos Aires to the south of Argentin…

  

  Natalia Garagiola / Argentina, France, Germany, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• I Dreamt of Empire

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Cairo, 1980. Musa, a brilliant Egyptian professor, cannot move past the grief of losing his onl…

  

  Kasem Kharsa / Egypt, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Idea of a Lake

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Inés, a 35 year-old photographer, is expecting a child and is in an emotionally vulnerable stat…

  

  Milagros Mumenthaler / Switzerland, Argentina, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive And You Were Full Of Joy

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Layal, a young Lebanese girl, finds the gap between her daily life and internal state is growin…

  

  Remi Itani / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• In Vitro

  Fall Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  In a converted nuclear reactor, 70-year-old Dunia, the dying founder of a hi-tech orchard, pass…

  

  Larissa Sansour / Palestine, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Interpret

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  After living a relatively normal life as a student studying in Berlin, Hassan reluctantly accep…

  

  Ali Kareem Obaid / Iraq, Italy, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• James Dean and Me

  Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  In 1967, in the shadow of the looming Arab-Israeli War, a Palestinian teenager watches James De…

  

  Sameh Zoabi / Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Joint Possession

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Tangier topography is in turmoil. Pharaonic real estate projects surround the Mansouria, a land…

  

  Leila Kilani / Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Journey

  Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Baghdad, 30 December, 2006. Sara, an unassuming young woman, enters Baghdad’s central train sta…

  

  Mohamed Jabarah Al Daradji / Iraq, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Kasha

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Adnan is a revolutionary war hero whose love for fighting and his AK-47 are rivalled only by hi…

  

  hajooj kuka / Sudan, South Africa, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Ladder to Damascus

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Ghalia moves to Damascus to study acting and rents a room in a traditional courtyard house, whe…

  

  Mohamad Malas / Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Lamb

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  As ‘Lamb’ opens, nine-year-old Ephraïm (an affecting As ‘Lamb’ opens, nine-year-old Ephraïm (an…

  

  Yared Zeleke / France, Ethiopia, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Land

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  The Denetclaws are a Native American family who live on the Prairie Wolf Indian Reservation. Ne…

  

  Babak Jalali / United Kingdom, Italy, France, Netherlands, Mexico, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Last Land

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Evangelina and Amancio, an elderly couple, live out their lives on an isolated hill. Evangelina…

  

  Pablo Lamar / Paraguay, Netherlands, Chile, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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