• Al Baseer - The Blind Ferryman

  Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  The blind ferryman Ayoub lives with his mother and religious brother in the Iraqi marshes. He a…

  

  Ali Al-Fatlawi / Iraq, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Arabic Interpreter

  Spring Grants 2018 -

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

  

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

• Arkala Gilgamesh's Dream

  Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  Chum-Chum, a nine-year-old dreamy street kid with diabetes, and his best friend, Moody, a tough…

  

  Mohamed Al-daradji / Iraq, United Arab Emirates, France, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Boss

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Five boys from a small village lose their football field and swimming pool to the Tigers, a gan…

  

  Rzgar Huseein Ahmed / Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Short 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

• 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

• The Exam

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  Rojin is about to sit her university entrance exam. If she fails, her father will force her to…

  

  Shawkat Amin Korki / Iraq, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Haifa Street

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  It’s 2006 and Baghdad is ravaged by sectarian violence. Haifa Street is the epicentre of the co…

  

  Mohanad Hayal / Iraq, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Haifa Street

  Fall Grant 2015 -

  Haifa Street, one of the most dangerous locations during the civil war in Baghdad, in 2006. Tar…

  

  Mohanad Hayal / Iraq, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Hope

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Hévi and Walat, a Kurdish-Syrian refugee couple in their thirties meet a human trafficker. They…

  

  Mohammad Shaikhow / Syria, Iraq, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• House Without Roof

  Fall Grant 2013 -

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

  

  Soleen Yusef / Iraq, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Journey

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  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

• Language

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Used to reading and printing Braille, a blind man in Baghdad becomes a giant and finds he can “…

  

  Mortada Gzar / Iraq, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Last Displaced

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  Fadi is a volunteer accompanied by Iraqi Forces. He lost communication with his family once ISI…

  

  Muhannad Al Sudany / Iraq, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Memories on Stone

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  ‘You have to be crazy to make a film in Kurdistan.’ So says one of the characters in Shawkat Am…

  

  Shawkat Amin Korki / Germany, Qatar, Iraqi Kurdistan Region / Feature Narrative

• Mother of Silence

  Fall Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  Zahraa (30) revisits an incident that took place at her aunt Hayat’s (65) house in Baghdad twen…

  

  Zahraa Ghandour / Iraq, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• My Mother & I

  Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  A woman in her seventies defies societal expectations and clings to her isolated life alongside…

  

  Dilpak Majeed / Iraq, Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The President's Cake

  Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  It’s April 26, 1991. Today is “draw day,” which means that schools across Iraq will select stud…

  

  Hasan Hadi / Iraq, United States of America, 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

• She Was Not Alone

  Spring Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

  ‘She Was Not Alone’ is a film about the inner, poetic world of Fatima, an inspiring and indepen…

  

  Hussein Al-Asadi / Iraq, United States of America, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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