• Born in the Maelstrom

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Inspired by the novel ‘Naissance de Rebecca à l’ère des tourments’ by Québécoise author Marie-C…

  

  Meryam Joobeur / Tunisia, Canada, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Dar El Malika

  Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  Because she has only daughters, Malika finds herself homeless and almost destitute after the tr…

  

  Lotfi Bouchouchi / Algeria, Qatar / TV Series

• Girl Made Of Dust

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  In a village of the Lebanese Chouf, ten-year-old Ruba lives in a dream world filled with witche…

  

  Hiam Abbass / Palestine, Lebanon, France, Germany, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Hamlet From the Slums

  Fall Grants 2021 - Production Stage

  Ahmed, an 18-year-old from a slum in Cairo, buries his father—the king of horse-driven carriage…

  

  Ahmed Fawzi Saleh / Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Hope

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  The short film ‘Hope’ is about a newborn baby sea turtle named Aqua, born with a disability of…

  

  Abdulla Al Jananhi / Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Key

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  Moshe and Elza, an Israeli couple, are awoken by the cries of their 6-year-old girl, Edina, who…

  

  Rakan Mayasi / Palestine, Belgium, Qatar, France / Short Narrative

• The People

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Mahfod Lakroune, Ahcen Djouzi and Amir Bensaid from the former troupe “Action Culturelle des Tr…

  

  Rahma Benhamou El Madani / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• A Road to Damascus

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Based on Meedo’s novel of the same title. A bus carrying immigrant farmers is gunned down just…

  

  Meedo Taha / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Seven Mountains and Seven Seas

  Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  Tamar, an old man, lies sick in bed in his neat European apartment. He struggles to liberate hi…

  

  Noel Keserwany / France, Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Tropic of violence

  Spring Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

  Mary is a nurse in Mayotte. One night on the beach, a young woman rescued from a "kwassa" (a cl…

  

  Manuel Schapira / France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• You Will Die at Twenty

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  In a Sudanese village, a mother gives birth to Muzamel, a boy cursed by a Dervish prophecy that…

  

  Amjad Abu Alala / Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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