• 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

• The Colonel's Stray Dogs

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  

  Khalid Shamis / Libya, South Africa, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• A Comedian in a Syrian Tragedy

  Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  This chronicle of an uprising and of exile begins in the early months of the Syrian revolution,…

  

  Rami Farah / Syria, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Concrete Dreams: Some Roads Lead Home

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  I want to tell a story of the evolving landscape of a nation that has been marred by images of …

  

  Saba Karim Khan / Pakistan, Qatar / Short Documentary

• Constructions

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Pedro, an ageing security guard, patrols a deserted construction site in Córdoba, Argentina. Ac…

  

  Fernando Martín Restelli / Argentina, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Control

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  In the state TV control room, the technical team is preparing for what is arguably the most imp…

  

  Mohamed Adeeb / Egypt, France, Qatar / Short 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

• Crayons of Askalan

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  A creative documentary based on the powerful story of the Palestinian artist Zuhdi Al Adawi. IN…

  

  Laila Hotait Salas / Lebanon, Spain, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Cursed Be the Phosphate

  Spring Grant 2012 -

  On 5 January 2008, a sit-in organised by a group of unemployed youths in front of the town hall…

  

  Sami Tlili / Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Dam

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  North Sudan, Merowe Dam. Abu Salma, a seasonal worker from Darfur, works in a traditional brick…

  

  Ali Cherri / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Damascus My First Kiss

  Spring Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  When I got my first period, my mother kissed me and said with a smile: “Now you are a woman. Yo…

  

  Lina Alabed / Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Dancing Beirut

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  A group of dancers wander through Beirut, looking for spaces where they can generate visual, so…

  

  Alia Hamdan, Fares Chalabi / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• 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

• The Day I Lost My Shadow

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Sana is a young mother struggling to raise her eight-year-old child in war-torn Syria in 2012.…

  

  Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Day I Lost My Shadow

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Sana is a young mother struggling to raise her eight-year-old child in war-torn Syria in 2012.…

  

  Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Days of Grace

  Spring Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  A young Syrian man is faced with a dilemma: he has only a few days to leave Beirut to go abroad…

  

  Saleh Nass / Bahrain, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Days of Tyranny

  Fall Grant 2011 -

  In a border town set in an unnamed Arab country ruled by a ruthless dictatorship, Hana, a mothe…

  

  Katia Jarjoura / Canada, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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