• 7 Waves

  Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  A magical realist tale inspired by local Arabian Gulf mythology and set in Khaleeji modernism.…

  

  Hamida Issa / Qatar, Saudi Arabia / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Badr on the Moon

  Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

  ‘Badr on the Moon’ follows Badr, a curious young boy living with his parents on a moon colony.…

  

  Aisha Al-Jaidah, Kholoud Al Ali / Jordan, Qatar / TV Series

• 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

• The Botanist

  Spring Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

  In the valley villages of the northern border of Xinjiang, a lonely Kazakh boy named Arsin is o…

  

  Yi JING / China, 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

• Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Roaming the streets of Beirut searching for metal objects to be recycled, Ahmed, a Syrian refug…

  

  Wissam Charaf / France, Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Eman

  Spring Grants 2024 - Production Stage

  Eman, 14, lives in a strict household in Qatar. One day, she nervously asks her mother if she c…

  

  Maha Al Thani / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Even Donkeys Have Remorse

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Inside a crumbling old house, Omar spends his days terrified of the outside, while Reem is pass…

  

  Shirin Abu Shaqra / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A House in Jerusalem

  Spring Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  Young Rebecca is forced to move with her father from the UK to Jerusalem, in the hopes that a n…

  

  Muayad Alayan / Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• I Am Here But You Can't See Me

  Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  In the fictitious city of Beirut lives Viola, a musician and the leader of an underground movem…

  

  Feyrouz Serhal / Lebanon, Spain, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• IALU: The Field of Dreams

  Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  Living in Phantasma, one can barely see outside beyond its massive walls. Gates seem empty, wit…

  

  Mostafa Youssef / Egypt, Qatar / Short Narrative

• In This Darkness I See You

  Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  A Lebanese ghost story. Tarek, a young Syrian deserter, seeks refuge in Lebanon with the hope…

  

  Nadim Tabet / Lebanon, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Key

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Fathi Moftah, a child refugee, is obsessed with collecting keys. One day, while he is working a…

  

  Ghassan Jaradat / Jordan, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Ladder to Damascus

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Ghalia moves to Damascus to study acting and rents a room in a traditional courtyard house, whe…

  

  Mohamad Malas / Syria, Lebanon, 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

• Last Day at Home

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  A 12- year-old boy has just moved to Doha with his parents. To avoid dealing with the changes t…

  

  Noor Al-Nasr / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Meskoun

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  While attempting to enter Europe, Lotfi Meskini drowns with seven other unfortunate illegal imm…

  

  Hicham Lasri / Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt, Qatar / TV Series

• Miara

  Fall Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  Miara and her father, Ahar, are outcasts by choice, living in the hostile lands of 7th-century…

  

  Talal Selhami / Morocco, Qatar / TV Series

• The Mute

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  In 1960s Qatar, Mama Looloo lives alone as she builds a spaceship in the middle of her living r…

  

  Thamer Al-Thani / Qatar / Short Narrative

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