• 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

• Our Madness

  Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  Lucy is hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital in Mozambique. She dreams about her little son,…

  

  João Viana / Portugal, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Papicha

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Algeria, 1990s—Nedjma is a free-spirited and independent young student. She refuses to allow th…

  

  Mounia Meddour / Algeria, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Parijat

  Spring Grant 2014 - Development Stage

  'Parijat' is an enthralling drama that explores a Qatari woman's efforts to save her family's t…

  

  Hend Fakhroo / Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Paris the White

  Spring Grant 2015 -

  Aicha married Nour in 1962, the year of Algerian independence. Later, Nour went to work in Fran…

  

  Lidia Terki / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Passerby

  Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  After spending unfruitful years studying medicine in the former Soviet Union, Adnan decided to…

  

  Ameer Fakher Eldin / Syria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Pillow Secrets

  Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  When she recognises the body of the woman who was her mother, a young woman is drawn violently…

  

  Jillali Ferhati / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• Poisonous Roses

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Twenty-eight-year-old Taheya works as a washroom cleaner, and lives with her 22-year-old brothe…

  

  Fawzi Saleh / Egypt, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The President's Visit

  Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

  In a small fishing town, Nino sells soap at his Sultan of Soap shop. When he received a highly…

  

  Cyril Aris / Lebanon, United States of America, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Prisoner and Jailer

  Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  The story of two contrasting Libyans, one a key official in the former regime, the other one of…

  

  Muhannad Lamin / Libya, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Professor

  Spring Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  In 1977, Khalil Khalsawi, a constitutional law teacher in Tunis, is commissioned by the governi…

  

  Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Proposal

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  Nasser, a young Qatari man, dreams of marrying his American fiancé. He finds himself at the Min…

  

  Nadia Alkhater / Qatar / Short Narrative

• Queens

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Casablanca, Morocco. 27-year-old Zineb is a repeat offender behind bars. When she learns that h…

  

  Yasmine Benkiran / Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Rehana Maryam Noor

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  Rehana, a 37-year-old assistant professor in a private medical college, struggles to keep the h…

  

  Abdullah Mohammad Saad / Bangladesh, Singapore, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 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

• The Return

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  A man and a woman cross Syria at war. Forty-year-old Taysir, a Syrian, an exile in France, but…

  

  Meyar Al-Roumi / Syria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Reverence for Spiders

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  New York-based imam Omar Metwally develops an unlikely friendship with the homeless teenager wh…

  

  Faiza Ambah / Saudi Arabia, United States of America, France, Qatar / Feature 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

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