• How The Sea Became Salty

  Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  Yara is abandoning her life and leaving Egypt for good. She refuses her friend's Amr offer to d…

  

  Maysoon El-Massry / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Hunting Season

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  After his mother dies, 17-year-old Nahuel is shipped from Buenos Aires to the south of Argentin…

  

  Natalia Garagiola / Argentina, France, Germany, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• I Am Afraid To Forget Your Face

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  After being separated for 2 months, Adam travels down a rough road to be reunited, whatever it…

  

  Sameh Morsy / Egypt, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• I Am Here But You Can't See Me

  Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  In the fictitious city of Beirut lives Viola, a musician and the leader of an underground movem…

  

  Feyrouz Serhal / Lebanon, Spain, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• I Am One of Them

  Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  At the lake of a small town, Grzegorz makes a living by guiding tourist cruises on his boat, on…

  

  Nadim Suleiman / Poland, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• I Can Hear Your Voice... Still

  Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  One night in a small seaside town in Egypt the sound of a whale keeps coming from the sea but n…

  

  Sameh Alaa / Egypt / 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 Promise You Paradise

  Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  Following a violent incident; Eissa a 17 years old illegal African migrant in Egypt is in a que…

  

  Morad Mostafa / Egypt, France, Qatar / Short 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

• I Wished for Solitude

  Fall Grants 2021 - Development Stage

  Bader, a young man, grapples with the reality of his vanishing visage. In a tender gesture of l…

  

  Hamad Alfayhani / Qatar / Short Narrative

• I, Hummus

  Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  When I landed in Canada in 2006, I became recognized as a giant walking plate of hummus. Being…

  

  Rawane Nassif / Lebanon, Canada, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• IALU: The Field of Dreams

  Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  Living in Phantasma, one can barely see outside beyond its massive walls. Gates seem empty, wit…

  

  Mostafa Youssef / Egypt, Qatar / Short Narrative

• IZRIQAQ

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  In a land dotted with killing machines, Yassine finds an easy cover-up for his crime. But even…

  

  Rama Mari / Palestine, Norway, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Ibrahim, a Fate to Define

  Fall Grant 2015 -

  Ibrahim Alabed, my father, was a secret member of the Revolutionary Council, a Palestinian mili…

  

  Lina Alabed / Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Idea of a Lake

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Inés, a 35 year-old photographer, is expecting a child and is in an emotionally vulnerable stat…

  

  Milagros Mumenthaler / Switzerland, Argentina, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• If Only

  Spring Grants 2024 - Production Stage

  A small house in the up-and-coming neighbourhood of Madinat Khalifa is home to a recently marri…

  

  Ali Al Anssari / Qatar / Short Narrative

• If Only I Could Hibernate

  Fall Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  A poor but prideful teenager, Ulzii, lives in the yurt area of Ulaanbaatar with his mother and…

  

  Zoljargal Purevdash / Mongolia, France, Switzerland, 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

• In The House Of My Father

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  Twenty-eight years ago, when Rachida was just 16, her father forced her to marry a Moroccan man…

  

  Rachida El Garani / Morocco, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• In The Middle

  Spring Grants 2019 -

  In a rarely seen perspective of war, we follow Ali—a Yemeni soldier on tour in the temporary ca…

  

  Mariam Al-Dhubhani / Yemen, Qatar / Short Documentary

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