• Amparo

  Spring Grants 2020 -

  After a long night’s shift, Amparo, a single mother of two, returns home to find her children a…

  

  Simon Mesa Soto / Colombia, Sweden, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Ashkal

  Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  In the gardens of Carthage, a new district where modern buildings are juxtaposed with abandoned…

  

  Youssef Chebbi / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Black Country

  Spring Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  The tanbour is an object of cultural unity; unrestricted by religion or nationalism, this music…

  

  Mahmoud Omar / Egypt, Qatar / Short Documentary

• The Camera Never Cries

  Fall Grants 2020 - Development Stage

  From the beginning of the film, we land in an intimate space with two friends trying to revisit…

  

  Abuzar Adam, Elsadig Abdelgayoum / Sudan, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Cave

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  To escape the ongoing aerial bombardment on hospitals and chemical weapon attacks that killed m…

  

  Feras Fayyad / Syria, Denmark, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Cave

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Through the past seven years the civil war in Syria has spread death, horror and has cost a fri…

  

  Feras Fayyad / Denmark, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Ceuta's Gate

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Ceuta’s Gate is a series of reconstructed situations based on observations made on the border o…

  

  Randa Maroufi / Morocco, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Short Documentary

• Chaos

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  ‘Chaos’ narrates the story of three women in three cities – three women who have given up on li…

  

  Sara Fattahi / Syria, Austria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Children of the Famine

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Between 1915 and 1918, a famine killed an estimated two hundred thousand people, almost half of…

  

  Reine Mitri / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Cinema Palestine

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  This film will focus on the ‘fourth wave’ of Palestinian cinema, running from 1980 to the prese…

  

  Tim Schwab / Palestine, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Clouds

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Set in the South of Oman in 1978 after the Dhofar Rebellion. A story of a man called Ghafali…

  

  Muzna Al-Musafer / Oman, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Colonel's Stray Dogs

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  

  Khalid Shamis / Libya, South Africa, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Control

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  In the state TV control room, the technical team is preparing for what is arguably the most imp…

  

  Mohamed Adeeb / Egypt, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Crayons of Askalan

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  A creative documentary based on the powerful story of the Palestinian artist Zuhdi Al Adawi. IN…

  

  Laila Hotait Salas / Lebanon, Spain, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Dancing Beirut

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  A group of dancers wander through Beirut, looking for spaces where they can generate visual, so…

  

  Alia Hamdan, Fares Chalabi / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• 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 Day I Lost My Shadow

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production 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

• A Deep Long Breath

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  In 18 days, the January 25 Egyptian Revolution toppled a three-decade-old dictatorship and Egyp…

  

  Tahani Rached / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• Dream Away

  Spring Grant 2014 - Development Stage

  Representing freedom and easy cash, Sharm El Sheikh has long been a dream destination for Egypt…

  

  Marouan Omara, Johanna Domke / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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