• Nouss Nouss

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  ‘Nouss Nouss’ portrays an encounter between Western and Arab cultures via the story of a French…

  

  Leila Albayaty / Iraq, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Of Fathers and Sons

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Syrian filmmaker Talal Derki returns after his Sundance prize-winning documentary ‘Return To Ho…

  

  Talal Derki / Syria, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Orphanage

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  'The Orphanage' is set in Kabul in the late 1980s. 15-year-old Qodrat lives on the streets and…

  

  Shahrbanoo Sadat / Afghanistan, Denmark, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Plastic Flowers‏

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  A documentary about the experience of enforced disappearance in the prisons of ISIS told throug…

  

  Amer Mattar / Syria, Germany, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Rest In Piece

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Shelling forces the 40-year-old Midyan to flee his homeland. He takes with him only his dearest…

  

  Antoine Antabi / Syria, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Short 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

• Road to La Paz

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  Thirty-five-year-old Sebastián’s greatest passions are his old Peugeot 505 and the prog-rock ba…

  

  Francisco Varone / Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Selma

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  After the accidental death of her taxi-driver husband, Selma decides to become master of her ow…

  

  Mohamed Ben Attia / Tunisia, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Shadow of a Man

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Ahmad, 26, is the best mechanic in the mountains of Lebanon. The only car he hasn’t had time an…

  

  Niam Itani / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Sivas

  Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Set in a bleak Anatolian village, ‘Sivas’ tells the story of 11-year-old Aslan and Sivas, a wea…

  

  Kaan Müjdeci / Turkey, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Talking About Trees

  Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  Ibrahim, Suleiman, Manar and Altayeb are founding members of the ‘Sudanese Film Group’. Friends…

  

  Suhaib Gasmelbari / France, Sudan, Germany, Chad, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Taste of Cement

  Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  The Lebanese Civil War ended nearly a generation ago, but it remains far from forgotten, stampe…

  

  Ziad Kalthom / Syria, Lebanon, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Temporarily

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Reham is a 24-year-old Syrian girl who studied acting in Syria. Because of the war there, she m…

  

  Reham Alkassar / Germany, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• This Haunting Memory That Is Not My Own

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  A family finds itself violently ripped apart from their native home and thrown into the sea, in…

  

  Panos Aprahamian / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• Tshweesh

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Beirut, the day of the World Cup. A woman walks through the relatively quiet streets – people a…

  

  Feyrouz Serhal / Lebanon, Germany, Spain, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Tug Of War

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  Denge, a frustrated and rebellious young man meets Yasmin, a young Indian-Zanzibari girl in the…

  

  Amil Shivji / Tanzania, South Africa, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Underdown

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Moving to Beirut’s anarchic rhythm, ‘Underdown’ follows the struggles of a Palestinian cab driv…

  

  Sarah Kaskas / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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