• Alam

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Palestinian student Tamer doesn’t meddle in politics; at the same time, the memory of his uncle…

  

  Firas Khoury / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Atlantide

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  In Venice between the gondolas, canals and palaces, tourists pour in as residents head out. Loc…

  

  Yuri Ancarani / Italy, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Ava

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  Ava’s first visit to the gynaecologist with her mother is a traumatic experience for the young…

  

  Sadaf Foroughi / Iran, Canada, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Aya

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Seven-year-old Aya lives in an inner-city neighbourhood of Marseille. Intelligent and obsessed…

  

  Moufida Fedhila / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Beit Byoot

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Set in a dystopian dollhouse, little Jameela seeks the acceptance of two mean girls. But when s…

  

  Mayar Hamdan / Jordan, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Between Sisters

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  The two sisters Ornella and Teresa have cared for each other through their whole lives. Teresa…

  

  Manu Gerosa / Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Birdshot

  Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Fifteen-year-old Maya works with her father on an isolated farm in the Philippines. While ventu…

  

  Mikhail Red / Philippines, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• The Brink of Dreams

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  In an impoverished and patriarchal Egyptian village by the Nile, seven teenage girls rebel by f…

  

  Nada Riyadh / Egypt, France, Denmark / Feature Documentary

• Chitana

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Eya and Sofia, two sisters of ten and twelve years old, are sent to the local grocery store by…

  

  Amel Guellaty / Tunisia, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Dark Skull

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  After his father dies, Elder is forced to live with his grandmother – far away from the city –…

  

  Kiro Russo / Bolivia, 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

• Ebb & Flow

  Fall Grants 2021 - Production Stage

  ‘Ebb & Flow’ is a coming-of-age short film set in Beirut, Lebanon, in the early 2000s. It is th…

  

  Nay Tabbara / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Excursion

  Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  IMAN (15) and her class are planning their end of primary school excursion. While their parents…

  

  Una Gunjak / Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, France, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Ghetto Child

  Spring Grant 2013 -

  In a juvenile detention centre, Madi and his younger brother Bright try to fight the daily inju…

  

  Guillaume Tordjman / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Go Home

  Fall Grant 2011 -

  Nada is going home. Or at least she wants to. When she returns to Lebanon, she realises she's a…

  

  Jihane Chouaib / Lebanon, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Harakat!

  Spring Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  Aalia (14) and Haya (14) are two cool kids who spend their endless afternoons at the skatepark.…

  

  Nadia Al-Khater / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Hitch 60 (working title)

  Spring Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  Two mod girls from South-East London embark on a journey across continents, travelling away fro…

  

  Sara Al Obaidly / Qatar, United Kingdom, Turkey / Feature Documentary

• Honey Cigar

  Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  Paris, 1993—Selma, 17, lives in a bourgeois and secular Berber family in the suburbs. When she…

  

  Kamir Aïnouz / Algeria, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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