• Born in the Maelstrom

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Inspired by the novel ‘Naissance de Rebecca à l’ère des tourments’ by Québécoise author Marie-C…

  

  Meryam Joobeur / Tunisia, Canada, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Bull Shark

  Spring Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  ‘Bull Shark’ is inspired by real events that took place during the second wave of economic grow…

  

  Mohammed Al Ibrahim / Qatar, Bahrain, United States of America / Feature Narrative

• City of the Sun

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Imagined as a city of the future during the Soviet era, the once-celebrated manganese-mining to…

  

  Rati Oneli / Georgia, United States of America, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• A Comedian in a Syrian Tragedy

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  A gripping chronicle of a revolution and war, experienced by Syrian actor Fares Helou. As one o…

  

  Rami Farah / Syria, Denmark, Qatar, France, Norway / Feature Documentary

• Dark Skull

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  After his father dies, Elder is forced to live with his grandmother – far away from the city –…

  

  Kiro Russo / Bolivia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Diamond Island

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Diamond Island is a symbol of Cambodia’s future, a sprawling, ultra-modern paradise for the ric…

  

  Davy Chou / Cambodia, France, Germany, Thailand, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Dogs

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Young Roman gets a whole lot more than he bargained for when he inherits a large tract of land…

  

  Bogdan Florian Mirica / Romania, France, Bulgaria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Experimental Summer

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Both Mahmoud and Zeinab join in the search for the original version of an Egyptian film that wa…

  

  Mahmoud Lotfy / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• The Forgotten

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  A journey in the life of Kozo Okamoto, a Japanese freedom fighter and member of the Japanese Re…

  

  Ghada Terawi / Palestine, Qatar, United Arab Emirates / Feature Documentary

• Green Eyes

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  A blue-eyed coma patient swims from the end of a pier to the deepest point of the ocean of hims…

  

  Abdullah Al-Mulla / Qatar / Short Narrative

• HEAdbANG Lullaby

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Casablanca, June 11, 1986 – the day of the World Cup. After yet another blunder, embittered cop…

  

  Hicham Lasri / Morocco, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Hitch 60 (working title)

  Spring Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  Two mod girls from South-East London embark on a journey across continents, travelling away fro…

  

  Sara Al Obaidly / Qatar, United Kingdom, Turkey / Feature Documentary

• 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 Dreamt of Empire

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Cairo, 1980. Musa, a brilliant Egyptian professor, cannot move past the grief of losing his onl…

  

  Kasem Kharsa / Egypt, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• I Used to Sleep on the Rooftop

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Nuhad, a 53-year-old Syrian woman, had never left Syria until the war made her reconsider her e…

  

  Angie Obeid / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Insomnia of a Serial Dreamer

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Facing his insomniac nature, the author of this film meets with several people, asking each one…

  

  Mohamad Soueid / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• 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

• Listen to the Silence

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Nine years old and almost always smiling, Luka lives in a boarding school for deaf children, wh…

  

  Mariam Chachia / Georgia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Omé

  Spring Grants 2016 -

  Nine-year-old Elias, an active churchgoer preparing for his first communion, tests his faith fo…

  

  Wassim Geagea / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

• On Trials

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  The enacted. The robe. The absurd. Failed precedents. ‘On Trials’ is a film about realms of law…

  

  Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

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