• The Dark Wind

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Reko and Pero, a young Yazidi couple, prepare for family life in their village Boza. Suddenly,…

  

  Hussein Hassan / Iraq, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Daughters of Abdul-Rahman

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Single and middle-aged, Zainab lives a dreary existence as a local seamstress and her father’s…

  

  Zaid Abu Hamdan / Jordan, Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Day I Lost My Shadow

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Sana is a young mother struggling to raise her eight-year-old child in war-torn Syria in 2012.…

  

  Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Day I Lost My Shadow

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Sana is a young mother struggling to raise her eight-year-old child in war-torn Syria in 2012.…

  

  Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Day I Smoked a Cigarette with My Father

  Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

  Cairo, 1964. Alaa, a 12-year-old boy, and his three younger siblings hear shouting from the str…

  

  Sameh Alaa / Egypt, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Day Vladimir Died

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  Vladimir, an old Beirut resident, checks the obituaries page and attends funerals daily. Follow…

  

  Fadi Syriani / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Days of Grace

  Spring Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  A young Syrian man is faced with a dilemma: he has only a few days to leave Beirut to go abroad…

  

  Saleh Nass / Bahrain, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Days of Tyranny

  Fall Grant 2011 -

  In a border town set in an unnamed Arab country ruled by a ruthless dictatorship, Hana, a mothe…

  

  Katia Jarjoura / Canada, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Days of Tyranny

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  In a border town set in an unnamed Arab country ruled by a ruthless dictatorship, Hana, a mothe…

  

  Katia Jarjoura / Lebanon, France, Canada, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Dead Dog

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Aida, a 47-year-old woman living in Beirut, learns that Walid, her husband who lives and works…

  

  Sarah Francis / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Dear Son

  Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  Between the vows imposed by the monastic life and the maternity feeling, a nun finds herself fa…

  

  Wassim Geagea / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Dede

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Dina lives in a remote village high in the Georgian mountains, where traditions have remained t…

  

  Mariam Khatchvani / Georgia, Ireland, Netherlands, Croatia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Deep Long Breath

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  In 18 days, the January 25 Egyptian Revolution toppled a three-decade-old dictatorship and Egyp…

  

  Tahani Rached / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Demba

  Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

  55-year-old Demba is about to retire after 30 years of service at the city hall in his small to…

  

  Mamadou Dia / Senegal, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Democracy Year Zero

  Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  Four weeks. That is how long it took the Tunisian people to overthrow the dictator Zine El Abid…

  

  Amira Chebli, Christophe Cotteret / Tunisia, Belgium, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Desert Fish

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  The southern desert of Morocco. The son wants to become a fisherman and is always dreaming of t…

  

  Alaa Eddine Aljem / Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Devil's Drivers

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  The southern West Bank with its beautiful landscapes is home to many Palestinian Bedouins. In t…

  

  Daniel Carsenty, Mohammed Abugeth / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• Diaries from Lebanon

  Spring Grants 2021 - Production Stage

  In 2018, Joumana, a fiery feminist writer, poet and activist runs for election defying a politi…

  

  Myriam El Hajj / Lebanon, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Die Welt

  Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  'Die Welt' is an audacious hybrid of fiction and documentary, showing contemporary Tunisia shor…

  

  Karim Alexander Pitstra / Tunisia, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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