• Queens

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Casablanca, Morocco. 27-year-old Zineb is a repeat offender behind bars. When she learns that…

  

  Yasmine Benkiran / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Red Olive Tree

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  The Belmakis, an upper-middle-class family in France, appear to lead a trouble-free life; all,…

  

  Karim Bensalah / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Red Valentine

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Jad is a 30-year-old socialite who thinks he’s a poet. His family is pressuring him to take ove…

  

  Amin Matalqa / Jordan, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Rest In Piece

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Shelling forces the 40-year-old Midyan to flee his homeland. He takes with him only his dearest…

  

  Antoine Antabi / Syria, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Return

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  A man and a woman cross Syria at war. Forty-year-old Taysir, a Syrian, an exile in France, but…

  

  Meyar Al-Roumi / Syria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Reverence for Spiders

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  New York-based imam Omar Metwally develops an unlikely friendship with the homeless teenager wh…

  

  Faiza Ambah / Saudi Arabia, United States of America, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Rey

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  In 1860, a 35-year-old Frenchman explores Araucania, an autonomous region of southern Chile. Th…

  

  Niles Atallah / Chile, France, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• A Road to Damascus

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Gunshots ring out. A bus from Beirut to Damascus crashes. The only witness is a young botanist…

  

  Meedo Taha / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Road to La Paz

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Thirty-five-year-old Sebastián’s greatest passions are his old Peugeot 505 and the prog-rock ba…

  

  Francisco Varone / Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Road to Mosul

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Mosul, 2014. Ten-year-old Zaineb and her 14-year-old brother, Yousif escape after ISIS militia…

  

  Yahya Al Allaq / Iraq, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Rooftops

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Algiers. An overcrowded city with endless traffic jams, chaotic crowds, rundown buildings, old…

  

  Merzak Allouache / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• 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

• Rumors

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Souad and her neighbours’ hearts go out to the people who live around the block, victims of the…

  

  Azza El-Hassan / Jordan, Qatar / Short Narrative

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