• A Kasha

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Adnan is a revolutionary war hero whose love for fighting and his AK-47 are rivalled only by hi…

  

  hajooj kuka / Sudan, South Africa, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Kashkash

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  In a region torn apart by tradition, modernity, war, geopolitical spheres of influence, migrati…

  

  Lea Najjar / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Key

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Fathi Moftah, a child refugee, is obsessed with collecting keys. One day, while he is working a…

  

  Ghassan Jaradat / Jordan, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Key

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  Moshe and Elza are awoken by the cries of their 6-year old girl, Edina, who frequently hears so…

  

  Rakan Mayasi / Palestine, Germany, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• LABAN: The False Prophets of Johann Sebastian Bach

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  The French take Lebanon over from the Ottoman Empire and decide to flood a village in order to…

  

  Daniel Joseph / Lebanon, France, Georgia, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Lamb

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  As ‘Lamb’ opens, nine-year-old Ephraïm (an affecting As ‘Lamb’ opens, nine-year-old Ephraïm (an…

  

  Yared Zeleke / France, Ethiopia, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Madmen's Fort

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  In 1860, the Algerian Sahara is coveted by the colonial powers of the time, who dream of it as…

  

  Narimane Mari / Algeria, France, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Mediterranea

  Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  As ‘Mediterranea’ opens in Algeria, Ayiva and his friend Abas climb onto a truck packed to burs…

  

  Jonas Carpignano / Italy, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Mediterranean Fever

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Waleed, a Palestinian man, lives comfortably in his sea-view home in Haifa with his wife and ch…

  

  Maha Haj / Palestine, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Memories on Stone

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  ‘You have to be crazy to make a film in Kurdistan.’ So says one of the characters in Shawkat Am…

  

  Shawkat Amin Korki / Germany, Qatar, Iraqi Kurdistan Region / Feature Narrative

• Memory Hotel

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Germany, 1945. World War II is nearing its climactic end. Five-year-old Sophie and her parents…

  

  Heinrich Sabl / Germany, France, 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

• Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You

  Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  The wastelands and crowded streets of an African country are traversed by a woman bearing a woo…

  

  Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese / Lesotho, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Mustang

  Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  A village by the Black Sea, far from Istanbul. When they play a game in which they sit on boys’…

  

  Deniz Gamze Ergüven / Turkey, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• My Love Awaits Me by the Sea

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  ‘My Love Awaits Me by the Sea’ is a poetic documentary that narrates the story of its director,…

  

  Mais Darwazah / Jordan, Palestine, Qatar, Germany / Feature Documentary

• My Uncle the "Terrorist"

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  When I was a child, there was a portrait of a man in our house. I never knew who he was; nobody…

  

  Elias Moubarak / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• NARDJES A.

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  March 8th, 2019, International Women’s Day and the third consecutive Friday that the city of Al…

  

  Karim Aïnouz / France, Algeria, Germany, Brazil, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Night

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  While searching for sleepless souls, a storyteller finds a woman standing in front of her door,…

  

  Ahmad Saleh / Palestine, Jordan, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Noche De Fuego

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  In a mountain town, where corn and poppies grow, the girls sport boyish haircuts and have hidin…

  

  Tatiana Huezo / Mexico, Germany, Brazil, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Nothingwood

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  About a hundred kilometres away from Kabul, Salim Shaheen, the most popular and prolific actor-…

  

  Sonia Kronlund / France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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