• Until the Birds Return

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Mourad, a businessman, rose to success in Algeria in the 2000s. Now a new man, he wants to stay…

  

  Karim Moussaoui / Algeria, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Valley

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Following a car accident on a lone mountain road, a middle-aged man loses his memory. Drenched…

  

  Ghassan Salhab / Lebanon, France, Germany, Qatar, United Arab Emirates / Feature Narrative

• Vanishing

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  In modern-day Beirut, single mother Rita juggles her work as an investigative journalist and as…

  

  Lucien Bourjeily / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Very Big Shot

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  In this clever take on the caper film, three brothers find themselves inextricably bound up in…

  

  Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Virgin, the Copts and Me

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  Namir is a French filmmaker of Egyptian origin. One day he watches a videotape of the Virgin Ma…

  

  Namir Abdel Messeeh / France, Qatar, Egypt / Feature Documentary

• Volubilis

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Abdelkader is a security guard and Malika is a domestic employee. Recently married, they are ma…

  

  Faouzi Bensaïdi / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Waiting Room

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  We are all aware of the various differences among cultures – language and tradition being the m…

  

  Hend Fakhroo / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Wajib

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Shadi returns to his hometown to help his father hand-deliver his sister’s wedding invitations.…

  

  Annemarie Jacir / Palestine, United Arab Emirates, France, Switzerland, Norway, Colombia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Wake

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  In the midst of night, Samaa, an old woman and her pubescent son Sari are at odds on the approp…

  

  Zahed Bata / Jordan, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Wake Up On Mars

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Ten-year-old Furkan is the youngest in his family and our guide through the film. His older sis…

  

  Dea Gjinovci / France, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Wall

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  In this engaging and endearing short, director Odette Makhlouf Mouarkech locates a seemingly im…

  

  Odette Makhlouf Mouarkech / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Wallay

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  When 13-year-old Ady gets himself into trouble in a French suburb, his father decides to send h…

  

  Berni Goldblat / France, Burkina Faso, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Walls and People

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  This film is a cry from the heart of the Medina of Casablanca for its inhabitants and their mem…

  

  Dalila Ennadre / Morocco, Algeria, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Walou

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  I hate the bled! When I was young, every summer, going to Algeria, I couldn’t do anything witho…

  

  Hassiba Belhadj / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• Waves

  Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  Before he came to power, a fortune teller told Hosni Mubarak that he would reach a powerful pos…

  

  Ahmed Nour / Egypt, Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Waves '98

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  The complex relationship of contemporary Beirutis to their troubled home city is beautifully im…

  

  Ely Dagher / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

• We Are Inside

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Being away for a decade, Farah returns to her father’s place in her hometown Tripoli, Lebanon.…

  

  Farah Kassem / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• We Could Be Heroes

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  In the run-up to the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games, Azzedine Nouiri, the world champion in seated s…

  

  Hind Bensari / Denmark, Morocco, Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• We Have Never Been Kids

  Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Since 2003, Mahmood Soliman has tracked the subjects of his​ ​2003 documentary ‘Living Among Us…

  

  Mahmood Soliman / Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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