• Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim

  Fall Grant 2012 -

  Ali loves a goat called Nada. Ibrahim, a depressed sound engineer who hears voices he cannot de…

  

  Sherif El Bendary / Egypt, United Arab Emirates, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Amateurs, Stars and Extras, or the Labor of Love

  Fall Grant 2012 -

  Amateurs, Stars and Extras or the labor of love, looks at the invisible work of care through di…

  

  Marwa Arsanios / Egypt, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Champ of the Camp

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Hailed by critics world-wide for its entertaining yet sympathetic look at the labour issue in t…

  

  Mahmoud Kaabour / United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, 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

• Democracy Year Zero

  Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  Four weeks. That is how long it took the Tunisian people to overthrow the dictator Zine El Abid…

  

  Amira Chebli, Christophe Cotteret / Tunisia, Belgium, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Desert Fish

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  The southern desert of Morocco. The son wants to become a fisherman and is always dreaming of t…

  

  Alaa Eddine Aljem / Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar / Short Narrative

• 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

• Divines

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  In a ghetto where trafficking and religion run side by side, Dounia is eager for power and succ…

  

  Houda Benyamina / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Egypt's Modern Pharaohs

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  On January 25, 1952, downtown Cairo was burnt down: angry mobs demanded the departure of Britis…

  

  Jihan El Tahri / Egypt, France, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Eyes of a Thief

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Inspired by real events, ‘Eyes of a Thief’ is a rare glimpse into Palestinian society from the…

  

  Najwa Najjar / Palestine, Qatar, Algeria, France, Iceland, Jordan / Feature Narrative

• The First Supper

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  ‘The First Supper’ is a creative documentary that takes place behind closed doors in an isolate…

  

  Jamal Khalaile, Pauline Carbonnier / Palestine, France, Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Gaddafi's Girls

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Known as the Amazons or Revolutionary Nuns, they were personally selected by Colonel Gaddafi fo…

  

  Sylvia Stevens / Libya, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• In this Land Lay Graves of Mine

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production/Post-Production Stage

  In 2009, I sold my land in my village in South Lebanon to a Muslim, stirring a sectarian discou…

  

  Reine Mitri / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Ismail

  Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  A young Palestinian living in a refugee camp in 1949 struggles to escape imminent death when he…

  

  Nora Alsharif / Jordan, Palestine, United Kingdom, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf

  Fall Grant 2012 -

  Marjoun is 17 years old and an outsider in her home of Little Rock, Arkansas. While her father…

  

  Susan Youssef / Lebanon, Netherlands, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Me Myself and Murdoch

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Ahmad is a 22-year-old Palestinian from a conservative Muslim family in Hebron. With his friend…

  

  Yahya Alabdallah / Palestine, Jordan, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Memories on Stone

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  ‘You have to be crazy to make a film in Kurdistan.’ So says one of the characters in Shawkat Am…

  

  Shawkat Amin Korki / Germany, Qatar, Iraqi Kurdistan Region / Feature Narrative

• The Night and the Kid

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  The dim light of night covers a stony desert in Algeria. By the light of the moon, Faouzi, IIye…

  

  David Yon / France, Qatar, Morocco / Feature Documentary

• O My Body!

  Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  Seeking to bridge Mediterranean cultures, choreographer Abou Lagraa and his wife, dancer Nawal…

  

  Laurent Aït Benalla / France, Qatar, Morocco / Feature Documentary

• Pillow Secrets

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  When she recognises the body of the woman who was her mother, a young woman is drawn violently…

  

  Jillali Ferhati / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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