• Adam

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  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

• The Blessed

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Algiers, a few years after the Civil War. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their 20th w…

  

  Sofia Djama / Algeria, France, Belgium, 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

• Femmetasia

  Fall Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Coming from a humble village, Hanane is determined to make a name for herself as the founder an…

  

  Mouhssine El Badaoui / Morocco, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Go Home

  Fall Grant 2011 -

  Nada is going home. Or at least she wants to. When she returns to Lebanon, she realises she's a…

  

  Jihane Chouaib / Lebanon, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Harvest

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  A young woman walks out of the Beirut airport alone and makes her way back home to her parents’…

  

  Ely Dagher / Lebanon, France, Belgium, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Hedi

  Fall Grant 2013 -

  Hedi is a simple young man. He is not very talkative or reactive and does not expect much from…

  

  Mohamed Ben Attia / Tunisia, Belgium, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Honey Cigar

  Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  Paris, 1993—Selma, 17, lives in a bourgeois and secular Berber family in the suburbs. When she…

  

  Kamir Aïnouz / Algeria, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Hounds

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  In the working-class suburbs of Casablanca, father and son Hassan and Issam, struggle to surviv…

  

  Kamal Lazraq / France, Morocco, Belgium, 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

• Man Without a Cellphone

  Fall Grant 2010 - Post-Production Stage

  A humorous, sharp take on the social milieu of a Palestinian village inside Israel. Jawdat just…

  

  Sameh Zoabi / Belgium, France, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Merry Christmas, Yiwu

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Communist ideals have long lost their value in Yiwu, a city with 600 Christmas factories, in wh…

  

  Mladen Kovacevic / Serbia, Sweden, Germany, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• My Little One

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Sarah, a 35-year-old Belgian woman of Moroccan descent, longs to become a mother and start a fa…

  

  Kadija Saidi Leclere / Morocco, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Papicha

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Algeria, 1990s—Nedjma is a free-spirited and independent young student. She refuses to allow th…

  

  Mounia Meddour / Algeria, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Queens

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Casablanca, Morocco. 27-year-old Zineb is a repeat offender behind bars. When she learns that h…

  

  Yasmine Benkiran / Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Salaam Plenty

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  'Salaam Plenty' is about the memory and erasure of the presence of Afghan cameleers in Australi…

  

  Samira (Yasmine) Kassari / Morocco, Australia, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Translator

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Having gotten into trouble with the Syrian government, Sami has been living for years as a poli…

  

  Rana Kazkaz, Anas Khalaf / Syria, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature 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

• Weldi

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  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

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