• 200 Meters

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Mustafa and his wife Salwa come from two Palestinian villages that are only 200 meters apart, b…

  

  Ameen Nayfeh / Palestine, Jordan, France, Germany, Italy, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 5 Seasons of Revolution

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  To support an armed struggle, to protest peacefully, to flee or to document events: these are t…

  

  Layla Abyad / Syria, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Amal

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Amal, an angry teenager, comes of age in a post-revolution Egypt that is undergoing tremendous…

  

  Mohamed Siam / Egypt, Lebanon, France, Germany, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Amparo

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  After a long night’s shift, Amparo, a single mother of two, returns home to find her children a…

  

  Simon Mesa Soto / Colombia, Sweden, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• An Unusual Summer

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  My father installed a surveillance camera and recorded the scenes in front of the house, contin…

  

  Kamal Aljafari / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Another Day In Baghdad

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Sara and her neighbours open the doors of their everyday lives for us, in a middle-class distri…

  

  Maysoon Pachachi / United Kingdom, France, Germany, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Apprentice

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Aiman, a 28-year-old Malay correctional officer, lives with his older sister Suhaila in a modes…

  

  Junfeng Boo / Singapore, Germany, France, Hong Kong, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Arabic Interpreter

  Spring Grants 2018 -

  After living a relatively normal life as a student studying in Berlin, Hassan reluctantly accep…

  

  Ali Kareem Obaid / Iraq, Italy, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Barzakh (Working Title)

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Mariam and Noura find their old father dead in his house on the outskirts of the city of Ramall…

  

  Laila Abbas / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Beauty and the Dogs

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Mariam wants to have a nice night out, so she takes to the dancefloor at the benefit she has or…

  

  Kaouther Ben Hania / Tunisia, France, Sweden, Norway, Lebanon, Switzerland, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Between Two Wars

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Fleeing the Syrian conflict, young Andriy's family unexpectedly land in Ukrainian. Now he helps…

  

  Alina Gorlova / Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Big Boys Don't Cry

  Spring Grants 2020 - Development Stage

  Yehia, a 35-year-old bodyguard, embodies a hyper-masculine image of power and violence. After h…

  

  Muhammad Mustapha / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Blessed Benefit

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Ahmad, a construction worker, gets tangled up in an unfortunate business deal that lands him in…

  

  Mahmoud Al Massad / Jordan, Netherlands, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Cocote

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Alberto, a gardener who works in the city, travels to his hometown to attend the funeral of his…

  

  Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias / Dominican Republic, Argentina, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• 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

• 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 - Post-Production Stage

  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

• Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Roaming the streets of Beirut searching for metal objects to be recycled, Ahmed, a Syrian refug…

  

  Wissam Charaf / France, Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Displaced in Heaven

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  The repetition of history and the passing on of collective and individual traumas from generati…

  

  Khaled Jarrar / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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