• The Dam

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  North Sudan, Merowe Dam. Abu Salma, a seasonal worker from Darfur, works in a traditional brick…

  

  Ali Cherri / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Damascus My First Kiss

  Spring Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  When I got my first period, my mother kissed me and said with a smile: “Now you are a woman. Yo…

  

  Lina Alabed / Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Dancing Beirut

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  A group of dancers wander through Beirut, looking for spaces where they can generate visual, so…

  

  Alia Hamdan, Fares Chalabi / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Daoud's Winter

  Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  Iraq, winter 1988. Daoud, a young man from Baghdad, is drafted into the war with Iran. At the f…

  

  Koutaiba Al-Janabi / Iraq, Lebanon, Netherlands, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Day I Lost My Shadow

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Sana is a young mother struggling to raise her eight-year-old child in war-torn Syria in 2012.…

  

  Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Day I Lost My Shadow

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Sana is a young mother struggling to raise her eight-year-old child in war-torn Syria in 2012.…

  

  Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, France, 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

• Days of Grace

  Spring Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  A young Syrian man is faced with a dilemma: he has only a few days to leave Beirut to go abroad…

  

  Saleh Nass / Bahrain, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Days of Tyranny

  Fall Grant 2011 -

  In a border town set in an unnamed Arab country ruled by a ruthless dictatorship, Hana, a mothe…

  

  Katia Jarjoura / Canada, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Days of Tyranny

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  In a border town set in an unnamed Arab country ruled by a ruthless dictatorship, Hana, a mothe…

  

  Katia Jarjoura / Lebanon, France, Canada, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Dead Dog (working title)

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  When Farid, a 60-year-old man who lives abroad, visits his wife in their Lebanese mountain home…

  

  Sarah Francis / Lebanon, 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

• Divine Wind

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Nour and Amine don’t know each other. They meet in a house, near the city of Timimoun, in the A…

  

  Merzak Allouache / Algeria, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Don't Tell a Soul

  Spring Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  Faris, a Lebanese Muslim living in the US, awakens to discover the dead body of his wife’s ex-h…

  

  Nour Wazzi / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Dona Césaria

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Césaria Evora is an internationally renowned singer whose voice rings with the culture, ambienc…

  

  Dima Al-Joundi / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Embers

  Spring Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  A dialogue between two generations is represented by Tamara, the grandchild of an older Tamara…

  

  Tamara Stepanyan / Armenia, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Even Donkeys Have Remorse

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Inside a crumbling old house, Omar spends his days terrified of the outside, while Reem is pass…

  

  Shirin Abu Shaqra / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Everything That Has a Future

  Spring Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  Cairo, June 2015, 6:00 AM. An explosion shatters a window, knocking Lola, a 40-year old-Egyptia…

  

  Laila Hotait Salas / Lebanon, Spain, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Fair Light of Dawn

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  'The Fair Light of Dawn’ offers a kaleidoscopic view of the lives of several citizens in Beirut…

  

  Hisham Bizri / Lebanon, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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