• Amateurs, Stars and Extras, or the Labor of Love

  Fall Grant 2012 -

  Amateurs, Stars and Extras or the labor of love, looks at the invisible work of care through di…

  

  Marwa Arsanios / Egypt, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Asphalt

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  'Asphalt' delves into the lives of two truck drivers on the road, crossing borders, towns and c…

  

  Ali Hammoud / Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Champ of the Camp

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  Hailed by critics world-wide for its entertaining yet sympathetic look at the labour issue in t…

  

  Mahmoud Kaabour / United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Children of the Famine

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Between 1915 and 1918, a famine killed an estimated two hundred thousand people, almost half of…

  

  Reine Mitri / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Cinema Palestine

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  This film will focus on the ‘fourth wave’ of Palestinian cinema, running from 1980 to the prese…

  

  Tim Schwab / Palestine, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Crayons of Askalan

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  A creative documentary based on the powerful story of the Palestinian artist Zuhdi Al Adawi. IN…

  

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

• Cursed Be the Phosphate

  Spring Grant 2012 -

  On 5 January 2008, a sit-in organised by a group of unemployed youths in front of the town hall…

  

  Sami Tlili / Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• A Deep Long Breath

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  In 18 days, the January 25 Egyptian Revolution toppled a three-decade-old dictatorship and Egyp…

  

  Tahani Rached / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Democracy Year Zero

  Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  Four weeks. That is how long it took the Tunisian people to overthrow the dictator Zine El Abid…

  

  Amira Chebli, Christophe Cotteret / Tunisia, Belgium, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Devil's Drivers

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  The southern West Bank with its beautiful landscapes is home to many Palestinian Bedouins. In t…

  

  Daniel Carsenty, Mohammed Abugeth / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Facing the Dragon

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  In a documentary filmed over four years, filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi intimately follows two uncon…

  

  Sedika Mojadidi / Afghanistan, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• The Foreign Son

  Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Answering the call of his homeland, of which he retains only childhood memories, 50-year-old Om…

  

  Abdallah Badis / France, Qatar, Algeria / Feature Documentary

• Freedom Fields

  Spring Grant 2012 -

  In post-revolution Libya, a group of women are brought together by one dream: to play football…

  

  Naziha Arebi / Libya, United Kingdom, United States of America, Netherlands, Canada, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Freedom Fields

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  At the new dawn of a nation once cut off from the world, a dynamic group of women from fracture…

  

  Naziha Arebi / Libya, United Kingdom, Netherlands, United States of America, Qatar, Lebanon, Canada / Feature Documentary

• Gaddafi's Girls

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Known as the Amazons or Revolutionary Nuns, they were personally selected by Colonel Gaddafi fo…

  

  Sylvia Stevens / Libya, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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