• Just like boys!

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Eya and Sofia, two sisters of ten and twelve years old, are sent to the local grocery store by…

  

  Amel Guellaty / Tunisia, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Kashta

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Out in the beautiful quiet of the windswept dunes, a man teaches his young sons the traditional…

  

  A.J. Al-Thani / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Land Of Women

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  In an impoverished and patriarchal Egyptian village by the Nile, seven teenage girls rebel by f…

  

  Nada Riyadh / Egypt, France, Denmark / Feature Documentary

• Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf

  Fall Grant 2012 -

  Marjoun is 17 years old and an outsider in her home of Little Rock, Arkansas. While her father…

  

  Susan Youssef / Lebanon, Netherlands, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Nezouh

  Fall Grants 2019 -

  During the Syrian conflict in Damascus, a missile destroys the ceiling of Zeina’s house. She is…

  

  Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Nine Month War

  Fall Grants 2017 -

  Twenty-four-year-old Jani lives in a small town in Western Ukraine, part of the minority Hungar…

  

  László Csuja / Hungary, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• Ouaga Girls

  Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  The sun shines over an open garage in Burkina Faso’s capital, where Bintou is lacquering a car…

  

  Theresa Traore Dahlberg / Burkina Faso, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Playtime

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Matthew lives with his mother, an army secretary, in Ahmadi, Kuwait. One night, she leaves him…

  

  Hamad Al-Tourah / Kuwait, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Plum Season

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Nouha, a 16-year-old teenager, lives in a close relationship with her mother. Her father reappe…

  

  Rim Mejdi / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Queen of the Hoggar (working title)

  Spring Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  Kella, a young princess, and her elder sister are forced to leave their home because of war. Th…

  

  Muhannad Lamin / Libya, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Seen and Unseen

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  One day in a hospital room, 10-year-old Tantri realises she will not have much more time with h…

  

  Kamila Andini / Indonesia, Netherlands, Australia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Sister

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  In a small town in present-day Bulgaria, a mother and her two daughters are struggling to survi…

  

  Svetla Tsotsorkova / Bulgaria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Soaring Over Mayhem

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  In the brutal lands of northern Syria, 10- year-old bird enthusiast Rami struggles to survive a…

  

  Abdullah Al-Wazzan / Kuwait, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Son of a Dog

  Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  Set against the backdrop of a never-ending war, ‘Son of a Dog’ is the coming-of-age story of 17…

  

  Alain Sauma / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Speed Sisters

  Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Meet Marah, Mona, Betty, Noor and Maysoon – the first all-woman rally-racing team in the Middle…

  

  Amber Fares / Palestine, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Tangier Stories

  Fall Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  In contemporary Morocco, Hayat brings Soussen, her 12-year-old daughter, from their poor villag…

  

  Fyzal Boulifa / France, Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Dragon Blood Island

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  ‘The Dragon Blood Island’ is a short documentary that focuses on the beauty of what has been de…

  

  Sufian Abulohom / Yemen, United States of America, Qatar / Short Documentary

• They

  Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  Fourteen-year-old J goes by the pronoun ‘They” and lives with their parents in the suburbs of C…

  

  Anahita Ghazvinizadeh / Iran, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Time Tree

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Based on the children’s novel by the best-selling author Enid Richemont, 'The Time Tree' is a s…

  

  Celine Cotran / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Short Narrative

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