• 5 Seasons of Revolution

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  An aspiring video journalist in her 20s finds herself already facing self-reckoning. Born in Da…

  

  Lina / Syria, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Adam

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-ye…

  

  Maryam Touzani / Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• After the Bridge

  Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  Valeria Collina, an Italian woman who converted to Islam, returned to live in Italy in the summ…

  

  Davide Rizzo, Marzia Toscano / Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Behind Closed Doors

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Six-year-old Leila and her mother, Sara, have a close relationship. They live a comfortable lif…

  

  Hend Fakhroo / Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• 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

• The Exam

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  Rojin is about to sit her university entrance exam. If she fails, her father will force her to…

  

  Shawkat Amin Korki / Iraq, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Exchange

  Fall Grants 2020 - Development Stage

  Kuwait. 1988. In two years, the country will be invaded by Iraq, but Farida is currently embroi…

  

  Nadia Ahmad / Kuwait, Qatar / TV Series

• Facing the Dragon

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  In a documentary filmed over four years, filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi intimately follows two uncon…

  

  Sedika Mojadidi / Afghanistan, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• Gubgub

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  After securing her first catch of the day while crab-hunting with her father and brother, brigh…

  

  Nouf Al Sulaiti / Qatar / Short Narrative

• 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

• In A Dream You Saw a Way to Survive and You Were Full of Joy

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Layal, 21, returns home one night after a sexual encounter and joins her mother Salma, who is u…

  

  Remi Itani / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege

  Spring Grants 2019 -

  The district of Yarmouk in Damascus, Syria, sheltered the largest Palestinian refugee camp in t…

  

  Abdallah Al-Khatib / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Noura's Dream

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Noura meets the love of her life, Lassaad, while her husband, Sofiane, is in jail. She raises h…

  

  Hinde Boujemaa / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Orca

  Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  Elham, a young divorced Iranian woman, survives a horrific beating at the hands of her estrange…

  

  Sahar Mossayebi / Qatar, Iran / Feature Narrative

• Playtime

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Matthew lives with his mother, an army secretary, in Ahmadi, Kuwait. One night, she leaves him…

  

  Hamad Al-Tourah / Kuwait, Qatar / Short Narrative

• 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

• Sofia

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  Sofia lives with her parents in Casablanca. Suffering from pregnancy denial, she finds herself…

  

  Meryem Benm’Barek / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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