• '81

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  When tasked by officials to pursue entry into the 1981 FIFA Youth World Championships in Austra…

  

  Dawood Al-Anwari, Ali Al Anssari / Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 1976

  Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house to supervise its renovation. Her husband, chil…

  

  Manuela Martelli / Chile, Argentina, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 1982

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  A DFI Inclusive Screening Working in partnership with the Translation and Interpre…

  

  Oualid Mouaness / Lebanon, United States of America, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 19B

  Fall Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  An abandoned villa, deserted by its owners since the 60s, is only inhabited by its guard, who r…

  

  Ahmad Abdalla / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• 200 Meters

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Mustafa and his wife Salwa come from two Palestinian villages that are only 200 meters apart, b…

  

  Ameen Nayfeh / Palestine, Jordan, France, Germany, Italy, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 3000 Nights

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Falsely accused of being involved in terrorist activity, Layal is arrested, interrogated, and i…

  

  Mai Masri / Palestine, France, Jordan, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The 67th Summer

  Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  In 1967 Ali Ragheb, a young man from Cairo, receives a letter from an Austrian girl named Liz—a…

  

  Abu Bakr Shawky / France, Egypt, Austria, Germany / Feature Narrative

• 7 Waves

  Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

  A magical realist tale inspired by local Arabian Gulf mythology and set in Khaleeji modernism.…

  

  Hamida Issa / Qatar, Saudi Arabia / Feature Narrative

• Abou Leila

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  Algeria, 1994. Terrorist attacks have ravaged the north of the country for the past two years.…

  

  Amin Sidi-Boumédiène / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Across the Sea

  Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  Nour, 27, has immigrated illegally to Marseille. With his friends, he lives a marginal and fest…

  

  Saïd Hamich Benlarbi / Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Agora

  Spring Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

  ‘Agora’ is the story of the return of three people who disappeared under unexplained circumstan…

  

  Ala Eddine Slim / Tunisia, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Aisha Can’t Fly Away

  Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  Aisha, a 26-year-old Somali woman, works as a caregiver for elderly patients. She lives in a ne…

  

  Morad Mostafa / Egypt, France, Germany, Tunisia, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Al Baseer - The Blind Ferryman

  Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  The blind ferryman Ayoub lives with his mother and religious brother in the Iraqi marshes. He a…

  

  Ali Al-Fatlawi / Iraq, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Al-Dana

  Spring Grants 2024 - Development Stage

  1752, Al-Dana is a woman in a man’s world where Pearl Diving is the only way of life. Her grand…

  

  Nora Al-Subai / Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Alam

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Palestinian student Tamer doesn’t meddle in politics; at the same time, the memory of his uncle…

  

  Firas Khoury / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Algiers by Night

  Spring Grant 2012 -

  The sun sets over the Bay of Algiers. The city walls start to lose their shiny white, making ro…

  

  Yanis Koussim / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• All this Victory

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  In a small village in the south of Lebanon, during the last days of the July War, five people t…

  

  Ahmad Ghossein / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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