• To Live To Sing

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Zhao Li is the manager of a small Sichuan Opera troupe of 11 members living and performing toge…

  

  Johnny Ma / China, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Underdown

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Moving to Beirut’s anarchic rhythm, ‘Underdown’ follows the struggles of a Palestinian cab driv…

  

  Sarah Kaskas / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Unknown Saint

  Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  Young Amine steals a large sum of money and escapes into the hills with the police hot on his t…

  

  Alaa Eddine Aljem / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Vanishing

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  In modern-day Beirut, single mother Rita juggles her work as an investigative journalist with t…

  

  Lucien Bourjeily / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Virgin, the Copts and Me

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  Namir is a French filmmaker of Egyptian origin. One day he watches a videotape of the Virgin Ma…

  

  Namir Abdel Messeeh / France, Qatar, Egypt / Feature Documentary

• The Wall

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  In this engaging and endearing short, director Odette Makhlouf Mouarkech locates a seemingly im…

  

  Odette Makhlouf Mouarkech / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Walou

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  I hate the bled! When I was young, every summer, going to Algeria, I couldn’t do anything witho…

  

  Hassiba Belhadj / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Watch Before Deletion

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  An episode of a radio show revisiting the life of an Arab music icon takes an unexpected turn w…

  

  Mohammad Shawky Hassan / Egypt, Germany, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Waves

  Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

  Before he came to power, a fortune teller told Hosni Mubarak that he would reach a powerful pos…

  

  Ahmed Nour / Egypt, Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Waves '98

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  The complex relationship of contemporary Beirutis to their troubled home city is beautifully im…

  

  Ely Dagher / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

• We Could Be Heroes

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  In the run-up to the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games, Azzedine Nouiri, the world champion in seated s…

  

  Hind Bensari / Denmark, Morocco, Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• We Have Never Been Kids

  Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Since 2003, Mahmood Soliman has tracked the subjects of his​ ​2003 documentary ‘Living Among Us…

  

  Mahmood Soliman / Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Weldi

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  A Tunisian couple are nearing retirement age, but times are hard, and money is tight. The life…

  

  Mohamed Ben Attia / Tunisia, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• What's Your Story? Part I

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production/Post-Production Stage

  Jamal, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, meets five young Israelis with differing ideological pe…

  

  Jamal Khalaile, Pauline Carbonnier / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• When Two Worlds Collide

  Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

  ‘When Two Worlds Collide’ traces the epic journey of Alberto Pizango, an indigenous leader faci…

  

  Heidi Brandenburg, Mathew Orzel / Peru, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• When We're Born

  Spring Grant 2011 -

  A revolution has shaped the nation, and the dreamscapes of three Egyptians are interconnected i…

  

  Tamer Ezzat / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Where Did I Leave My Face?

  Fall Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Ali, originally from Jerusalem, lives in Paris with his girlfriend, Julie. He is constantly tra…

  

  Ramzi Maqdisi / Palestine, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• White Building

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  Raised in Phnom Penh’s landmark tenement—the White Building—20-year-old Samnang and two friends…

  

  Kavich Neang / Cambodia, France, China, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Yalla, Baba!

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  In 1980, 32-year-old Mansour travelled to Belgium with his friends, bought cars, and set off on…

  

  Angie Obeid / Belgium, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• You Have The Night

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  After losing her job as a hostess aboard a ship, Sanja finds herself stranded, with nowhere to…

  

  Ivan Salatic / Montenegro, Serbia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

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