• 2 Rooms and a Parlor

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Khalil Suleiman has always preferred to stay away from other people, but after his wife’s death…

  

  Sherif El Bendary / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Before the Dying of the Light

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  The seventies were the last Moroccan period in which struggles and dreams for change were a rea…

  

  Abdelali Essafi / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Egyptian Jeanne d'Arc

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  ‘Egyptian Jeanne d’Arc’ is a creative documentary that explores issues of female emancipation i…

  

  Iman Kamel / Kuwait, Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Eyes of a Thief

  Spring Grant 2013 - Post-Production Stage

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

  

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

• The Foreign Son

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Answering the call of his homeland, of which he retains only childhood memories, 50-year-old Om…

  

  Abdallah Badis / France, Qatar, Algeria / Feature Documentary

• Ghadi

  Spring Grant 2013 - Post-Production Stage

  In a small neighbourhood of a traditional Lebanese coastal town, Leba, a music instructor, marr…

  

  Amin Dora / Lebanon, 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

• Homemade Stories

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production, Production, Production Stage

  Nidal, a Syrian filmmaker, must leave his home city of Damascus. He locks his door behind him a…

  

  Nidal Al Dibs / Egypt, Qatar, Syria / 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

• James Dean and Me

  Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  In 1967, in the shadow of the looming Arab-Israeli War, a Palestinian teenager watches James De…

  

  Sameh Zoabi / Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Mariam

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Ever since she attended the Hajj with her grandmother, Mariam has covered her head, but when Fr…

  

  Faiza Ambah / France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia / Short Narrative

• My Uncle the "Terrorist"

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  When I was a child, there was a portrait of a man in our house. I never knew who he was; nobody…

  

  Elias Moubarak / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Nawara

  Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  Nawara, a woman in her 20s, works as a housemaid in the home of Ossama Bey and his family, who…

  

  Hala Khalil / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Out on the Streets

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Nine men gather for a workshop on a rooftop. There they perform confrontations of everyday life…

  

  Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Railway Men

  Spring Grant 2013 -

  Conducting the trains of Line #1, the country’s deadliest, five employees struggle with the dar…

  

  Erige Sehiri / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Rise of the Gulf / Beyond Black Gold

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Two films to tell the incredible tale of the metamorphosis of the Gulf’s emirates over the cour…

  

  Frédéric Compain / France, Qatar, Kuwait / Feature Documentary

• Son of a Dog

  Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  Set against the backdrop of a never-ending war, ‘Son of a Dog’ is the coming-of-age story of 17…

  

  Alain Sauma / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Survival Visa

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  When disaster strikes, the NASA (National Agency Survival & Arabic) publishes a call for applic…

  

  Nadia Rais / Tunisia, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Theeb

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Arabia, 1916. Theeb [Wolf] lives with his Bedouin tribe in a forgotten corner of the Ottoman Em…

  

  Naji Abu Nowar / Jordan, United Kingdom, Qatar, United Arab Emirates / Feature Narrative

• Timbuktu

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Timbuktu, a historic and multicultural city in the West African nation of Mali, is taken over b…

  

  Abderrahmane Sissako / France, Mauritania, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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