• 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

• 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

• 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

• The People

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  Mahfod Lakroune, Ahcen Djouzi and Amir Bensaid from the former troupe “Action Culturelle des Tr…

  

  Rahma Benhamou El Madani / Algeria, 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Searching For Kikhia (working Title)

  Spring Grants 2019 -

  When director Jihan Kikhia was six years old, her father disappeared. He flew to Cairo and neve…

  

  Jihan Kikhia / Libya, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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

• 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

• That Which Is Coming

  Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

  ‘That Which Is Coming’ is an experimental video installation shot with a Phantom camera. It exp…

  

  Sophia Al-Maria / Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• 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

• 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

• Under the Shadow

  Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

  A victim of the post-revolution state crackdown on dissidents, one-time medical student Shideh…

  

  Babak Anvari / Iran, United Kingdom, Jordan, 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

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