• 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

• The Boss

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Five boys from a small village lose their football field and swimming pool to the Tigers, a gan…

  

  Rzgar Huseein Ahmed / Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Botanist

  Spring Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

  In the valley villages of the northern border of Xinjiang, a lonely Kazakh boy named Arsin is o…

  

  Yi JING / China, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Brief History of a Family

  Fall Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

  An incident on the playground brings two high school boys who are worlds apart together—the out…

  

  Jianjie Lin / China, Denmark, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Brighter Tomorrow

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Mehdi, Thibault and M’Barek are three thugs based in Aubervilliers. Mehdi, 30, lives alone with…

  

  Yassine Qnia / France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Brink of Dreams

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  In an impoverished and patriarchal Egyptian village by the Nile, seven teenage girls rebel by f…

  

  Nada Riyadh / Egypt, France, Denmark / Feature Documentary

• Brotherhood

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  Malik, an eighteen-year-old with flaming red hair, returns to his small village in Tunisia afte…

  

  Meryam Joobeur / Canada, Tunisia, Qatar, Sweden / 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

• Burning Birds

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  1989. A small village in eastern Sri Lanka. After her husband is abducted, tortured and murdere…

  

  Sanjeewa Pushpakumara / Sri Lanka, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• By the Time It Gets Dark

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  By the Time It Gets Dark’ tells the interwoven stories of several characters: a film director a…

  

  Anocha Suwichakornpong / Thailand, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Bystander

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production, Production, Production Stage

  On a sunny July day in Beirut, Roger, a beloved basketball coach, is on his way to work, proudl…

  

  Rachel Aoun / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Cactus Flower

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Aida, a struggling actress, came to Cairo from the Delta as a university student; like many oth…

  

  Hala Elkoussy / Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Camera Never Cries

  Fall Grants 2020 - Development Stage

  From the beginning of the film, we land in an intimate space with two friends trying to revisit…

  

  Abuzar Adam, Elsadig Abdelgayoum / Sudan, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Cave

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Through the past seven years the civil war in Syria has spread death, horror and has cost a fri…

  

  Feras Fayyad / Denmark, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Cave

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  To escape the ongoing aerial bombardment on hospitals and chemical weapon attacks that killed m…

  

  Feras Fayyad / Syria, Denmark, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Celebration

  Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  Mijo lives with his family in a poor village in the rural part of Croatia. By witnessing a crue…

  

  Bruno Anković / Croatia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Ceuta's Gate

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Ceuta’s Gate is a series of reconstructed situations based on observations made on the border o…

  

  Randa Maroufi / Morocco, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Short Documentary

• Chained Prey

  Spring Grants 2021 - Production Stage

  An Indian falcon, Raja, lives in the Arabian Gulf with his falconer, Sultan. While Raja has mor…

  

  Esmail Zalat / Egypt, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Challat of Tunis

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Tunis, 2003. A man on a mo-ped, razor blade in hand, prowls the streets. He’s on a mission: to…

  

  Kaouther Ben Hania / Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Champ of the Camp

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Hailed by critics world-wide for its entertaining yet sympathetic look at the labour issue in t…

  

  Mahmoud Kaabour / United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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