• Wajib

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  Shadi returns to his hometown to help his father hand-deliver his sister’s wedding invitations.…

  

  Annemarie Jacir / Palestine, France, Colombia, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Norway / Feature Narrative

• The Wake

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  In the midst of night, Samaa, an old woman and her pubescent son Sari are at odds on the approp…

  

  Zahed Bata / Jordan, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Wake Up On Mars

  Fall Grants 2019 -

  Furkan, the youngest member of a Roma family living in Sweden, attempts to come to terms with t…

  

  Dea Gjinovci / Switzerland, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Wall

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  In this engaging and endearing short, director Odette Makhlouf Mouarkech locates a seemingly im…

  

  Odette Makhlouf Mouarkech / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Wallay

  Fall Grants 2016 -

  When 13-year-old Ady gets himself into trouble in a French suburb, his father decides to send h…

  

  Berni Goldblat / France, Burkina Faso, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Walls and People

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  This film is a cry from the heart of the Medina of Casablanca for its inhabitants and their mem…

  

  Dalila Ennadre / Morocco, Algeria, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Walou

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  I hate the bled! When I was young, every summer, going to Algeria, I couldn’t do anything witho…

  

  Hassiba Belhadj / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Watch Before Deletion

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  An episode of a radio show revisiting the life of an Arab music icon takes an unexpected turn w…

  

  Mohammad Shawky Hassan / Egypt, Germany, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Waves

  Fall Grant 2012 -

  Before he came to power, a fortune teller told Hosni Mubarak that he would reach a powerful pos…

  

  Ahmed Nour / Egypt, Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Waves '98

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  The complex relationship of contemporary Beirutis to their troubled home city is beautifully im…

  

  Ely Dagher / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

• A Way Home

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  After years of separation, the filmmaker renews her relationship with her mother, Aïcha, who is…

  

  Karima Saidi / Morocco, Belgium, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• We Are Inside

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Being away for a decade, Farah returns to her father’s place in her hometown Tripoli, Lebanon.…

  

  Farah Kassem / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• We Could Be Heroes

  Fall Grant 2015 -

  In the run-up to the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games, Azzedine Nouiri, the world champion in seated s…

  

  Hind Bensari / Denmark, Morocco, Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• We Have Never Been Kids

  Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Since 2003, Mahmood Soliman has tracked the subjects of his​ ​2003 documentary ‘Living Among Us…

  

  Mahmood Soliman / Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Wear & Tear

  Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  Ayda has been an operator at a call centre for several years. She is in her forties and lives b…

  

  Sarra Abidi / Tunisia, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Weedestine

  Fall Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  In Palestine’s “Area C,” an unpoliced fractured zone, marijuana cultivation is thriving due to…

  

  Said Zagha / Palestine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Sweden / Feature Narrative

• Weldi

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  A Tunisian couple are nearing retirement age, but times are hard, and money is tight. The life…

  

  Mohamed Ben Attia / Tunisia, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• West of May

  Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

  In 'West of May', I want to describe Lebanon through the portrait of the Alayli family. This fa…

  

  Sarah Srage / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• What Brings You Here?

  Spring Grants 2022 - Development Stage

  Rashid finds himself lost in the desert among the dunes, where he finds a strange object buried…

  

  Abdulla Alemadi / Qatar / Short Narrative

• What Comes Around

  Fall Grant 2012 -

  In Rod El Farag, one of the poorest residential areas in Cairo, obtaining meat, fruit and daily…

  

  Reem Saleh / Lebanon, Egypt, Greece, Slovenia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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