• Do You Love Me

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  ‘Do You Love Me’, named after the widely popular Bendaly Family song that was released in 1978…

  

  Lana Daher / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Dream Away

  Spring Grant 2014 - Development Stage

  Representing freedom and easy cash, Sharm El Sheikh has long been a dream destination for Egypt…

  

  Marouan Omara, Johanna Domke / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Egyptian Jeanne d'Arc

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  ‘Egyptian Jeanne d’Arc’ is a creative documentary that explores issues of female emancipation i…

  

  Iman Kamel / Kuwait, Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Exam

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  Rojin is about to attend her university entrance exam. If she fails, her father will force her…

  

  Shawkat Amin Korki / Iraq, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Fidaï

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  During the war in Algeria, El Hadi, the great uncle of filmmaker Damien Ounouri joined his sist…

  

  Damien Ounouri / Algeria, France, China, Germany, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• From My Syrian Room

  Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  How can one operate as a free, creative person when one has been channelled to remain a good ci…

  

  Hazem Alhamwi / Syria, Lebanon, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Gaza Mon Amour

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  Gaza, today. Sixty-year-old fisherman Issa is secretly in love with Siham, a woman who works as…

  

  Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser / Palestine, France, Germany, Portugal, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Girl Made Of Dust

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  In a village of the Lebanese Chouf, ten-year-old Ruba lives in a dream world filled with witche…

  

  Hiam Abbass / Palestine, Lebanon, France, Germany, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Gravedigger

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  Middle-aged Guled, a kindhearted gravedigger living with his family in the outskirts of Djibout…

  

  Khadar Ahmed / Finland, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Handala, The Boy Without A Face

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Handala, the refugee Palestinian child, appeared in thousands of political caricatures to shed…

  

  Mahmoud Kaabour / Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• History of Fear

  Fall Grant 2013 - Post-Production Stage

  Pola spends his days trimming grass and taking care of a football court in a gated community in…

  

  Benjamin Naishtat / Argentina, Uruguay, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Holy Cow

  Fall Grant 2013 -

  Tapdig has what seems like a perfectly straightforward wish – to obtain a cow from Europe – for…

  

  Imamaddin Hasanov / Azerbaijan, Germany, Romania, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• House Without Roof

  Fall Grant 2013 -

  ‘House Without Roof’ tells the journey of Alan, Jan and Liya, three siblings born in the Kurdis…

  

  Soleen Yusef / Iraq, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Houston, We Have a Problem!

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  In 1948, a space programme was established in Yugoslavia, based on the diaries and technical pl…

  

  Žiga Virc / Slovenia, Germany, Croatia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• How My Grandmother Became A Chair

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  The heartless sea is relentlessly approaching poor grandmother’s house. By losing her five sens…

  

  Nicolas Fattouh / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Hunting Season

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  After his mother dies, 17-year-old Nahuel is shipped from Buenos Aires to the south of Argentin…

  

  Natalia Garagiola / Argentina, France, Germany, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• I Dreamt of Empire

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Cairo, 1980. Musa, a brilliant Egyptian professor, cannot move past the grief of losing his onl…

  

  Kasem Kharsa / Egypt, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• In the Claws of a Century Wanting

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Anne gives birth to her third child. Akira learns reading and writing while foraging for scrap…

  

  Jewel Maranan / Philippines, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Inside Me

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  A young Egyptian girl living with a conservative group that follows communal acts and practices…

  

  Halla Tarek / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Janitou

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  In Algeria in the mid-1980s, during a period of intense political and social unrest, the Bollyw…

  

  Amine Hattou / Algeria, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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