• 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 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

• Railway Men

  Spring Grants 2017 -

  Conducting the trains of Line #1, the country's deadliest, five employees struggle with the dar…

  

  Erige Sehiri / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Red Valentine

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Jad is a 30-year-old socialite who thinks he’s a poet. His family is pressuring him to take ove…

  

  Amin Matalqa / Jordan, 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

• 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

• A Road to Damascus

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Gunshots ring out. A bus from Beirut to Damascus crashes. The only witness is a young botanist…

  

  Meedo Taha / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Samir in the Dust

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  I always liked smugglers because they are playing with borders. But, I soon realized that the o…

  

  Mohamed Ouzine / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Sanctorum

  Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  In a small town plagued by a war between the army and drug traffickers, a child has lost his mo…

  

  Joshua Gil / Mexico, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Scenes from a Revolt Sustained

  Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  Examining the culture and history of Tunisia and how it has been mediated or ignored by the Wes…

  

  Kays Mejri, Matt Peterson / France, Tunisia, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• School of Hope

  Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Climate change and overgrazing have brought poverty to the nomad tribes of the High Plateau of…

  

  Mohamed El Aboudi / Morocco, Finland, France, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• The Servants

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Nabil is the guard of an old villa located by the mouth of a river. Sayed Walid, an influential…

  

  Marwan Khneisser / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Severed Head

  Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

  Two young shepherds, Nizar (16), and his cousin Achraf (14) are grazing their goats on a…

  

  Lotfi Achour / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature 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

• The Siren of Faso Fani

  Fall Grant 2013 -

  Through the eyes of former workers at the once-famous cotton factory in Burkina Faso, ‘The Sire…

  

  Michel K. Zongo / Burkina Faso, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Sirena

  Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  Lake Titicaca, 1984. Renowned La Paz engineer Morgan Cabrera drowns in a boating accident. An u…

  

  Carlos Piñeiro / Bolivia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Sofia

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Sofia lives with her parents in Casablanca. Suffering from pregnancy denial, she finds herself…

  

  Meryem Benm’Barek / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• A Son

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Tunisia, Summer 2011. Fares, Meriem, and their 10-year-old son Aziz are a modern and happy Tuni…

  

  Mehdi Barsaoui / Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Source

  Fall Grants 2018 -

  November 2010. The Tunisian national anthem rings throughout the Thala High School courtyard. T…

  

  Erige Sehiri / Tunisia, Switzerland, Qatar / TV Series

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