• Blessed Benefit

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Ahmad, a construction worker, gets tangled up in an unfortunate business deal that lands him in…

  

  Mahmoud Al Massad / Jordan, Netherlands, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Burning Birds

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  1989. A small village in eastern Sri Lanka. After her husband is abducted, tortured and murdere…

  

  Sanjeewa Pushpakumara / Sri Lanka, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• By the Time It Gets Dark

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  By the Time It Gets Dark’ tells the interwoven stories of several characters: a film director a…

  

  Anocha Suwichakornpong / Thailand, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Cinema Kawakeb

  Fall Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  After the pandemic lockdown was lifted in 2022, Youssef and Ali were relieved that they could n…

  

  Mahmoud Massad / Jordan, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• City of Wind

  Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  Ze is a timid 17-year-old shaman. He studies hard at school to succeed in the cold, callous soc…

  

  Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir / France, Mongolia, Portugal, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• City of the Sun

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Imagined as a city of the future during the Soviet era, the once-celebrated manganese-mining to…

  

  Rati Oneli / Georgia, United States of America, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• Dede

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Dina lives in a remote village high in the Georgian mountains, where traditions have remained t…

  

  Mariam Khatchvani / Georgia, Ireland, Netherlands, Croatia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Die Welt

  Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  'Die Welt' is an audacious hybrid of fiction and documentary, showing contemporary Tunisia shor…

  

  Karim Alexander Pitstra / Tunisia, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Don't Get Too Comfortable

  Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  When Shaima Al-Tamimi’s paternal grandfather migrated from Yemen to Zanzibar half a century ago…

  

  Shaima Al Tamimi / Yemen, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Netherlands, Qatar / Short Experimental

• East of Noon

  Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  East of Noon is a satire on the inner workings of an ailing autocracy and its inherent vulnerab…

  

  Hala Elkoussy / Netherlands, Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Freedom Fields

  Spring Grant 2012 -

  In post-revolution Libya, a group of women are brought together by one dream: to play football…

  

  Naziha Arebi / Libya, United Kingdom, United States of America, Netherlands, Canada, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Freedom Fields

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  Filmed over five years, 'Freedom Fields' follows three women and their football team in post-re…

  

  Naziha Arebi / Libya, United Kingdom, Netherlands, United States of America, Qatar, Lebanon, Canada / Feature Documentary

• Gaza 36mm

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  There are no longer any cinemas in Gaza due to the force of fundamentalist Islam, which sees th…

  

  Khalil El-Muzayen / Palestine, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• Land

  Fall Grant 2013 -

  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

• Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf

  Fall Grant 2012 -

  Marjoun is 17 years old and an outsider in her home of Little Rock, Arkansas. While her father…

  

  Susan Youssef / Lebanon, Netherlands, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Miracle of Almería

  Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  At the far end of Europe, on the southern border of Spain, lies Almería. It is a huge province…

  

  Moon Blaisse / Belgium, Switzerland, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Moondove

  Spring Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

  The harvest is in, but the abnormal drought is causing water issues in the village. A play is h…

  

  Karim Kassem / Lebanon, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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