• Our Choices

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  Set in Aleppo from the first demonstrations in 2011 up to the evacuation of the city in 2016, '…

  

  Salah Al Ashkar / Syria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Our Madness

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Lucy is hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital in Mozambique. She dreams about her little son,…

  

  João Viana / Portugal, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Ouroboros

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Diego Marcon is a man with a broken heart who journeys into the heart of the human condition on…

  

  Basma Alsharif / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• 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

• Paris the White

  Spring Grant 2015 -

  Aicha married Nour in 1962, the year of Algerian independence. Later, Nour went to work in Fran…

  

  Lidia Terki / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Playground Chronicles

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Brahim and his family are of Moroccan descent, and live on the grounds of a crane construction…

  

  Brahim Fritah / France, Qatar, Morocco / Feature Narrative

• Plot 35

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Plot 35 is a place that was never mentioned in my family; it is where my elder sister, who died…

  

  Eric Caravaca / France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Poisonous Roses

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Twenty-eight-year-old Taheya works as a washroom cleaner, and lives with her 22-year-old brothe…

  

  Fawzi Saleh / Egypt, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Poster

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  A poster appears on the walls of the Palestinian village of Reith, accusing the local women of…

  

  Suha Arraf / Palestine, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Professor

  Spring Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  In 1977, Khalil Khalsawi, a constitutional law teacher in Tunis, is commissioned by the governi…

  

  Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud / Tunisia, France, 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

• Railway Men

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  Conducting the trains of Line #1, the country's deadliest, five employees struggle with the dar…

  

  Erige Sehiri / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Railway Men

  Spring Grant 2013 -

  Conducting the trains of Line #1, the country’s deadliest, five employees struggle with the dar…

  

  Erige Sehiri / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Republic of Silence

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  She grew up in the lands of dictators and surveillance, where images are censored, photos are b…

  

  Diana El Jeiroudi / Syria, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Return

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  A man and a woman cross Syria at war. Forty-year-old Taysir, a Syrian, an exile in France, but…

  

  Meyar Al-Roumi / Syria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Reverence for Spiders

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  New York-based imam Omar Metwally develops an unlikely friendship with the homeless teenager wh…

  

  Faiza Ambah / Saudi Arabia, United States of America, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Rey

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  In 1860, a 35-year-old Frenchman explores Araucania, an autonomous region of southern Chile. Th…

  

  Niles Atallah / Chile, France, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Rise of the Gulf / Beyond Black Gold

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Two films to tell the incredible tale of the metamorphosis of the Gulf’s emirates over the cour…

  

  Frédéric Compain / France, Qatar, Kuwait / Feature Documentary

• The Rooftops

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Algiers. An overcrowded city with endless traffic jams, chaotic crowds, rundown buildings, old…

  

  Merzak Allouache / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Roundabout in My Head

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  While it may seem strange to think of an abattoir as a place of peace and beauty, ‘Roundabout…

  

  Hassen Ferhani / Algeria, France, Lebanon, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

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