• Aleph

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  Inspired by a short story from Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, Aleph is a creative docume…

  

  Iva Radivojević / United States of America, Croatia, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Amparo

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  After a long night’s shift, Amparo, a single mother of two, returns home to find her children a…

  

  Simon Mesa Soto / Colombia, Sweden, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Big Boys Don't Cry

  Spring Grants 2020 - Development Stage

  Yehia, a 35-year-old bodyguard, embodies a hyper-masculine image of power and violence. After h…

  

  Muhammad Mustapha / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Body and Soul

  Spring Grants 2020 - Development Stage

  Fahd, a 23-year-old Qatari man, sees no meaning for his life. He is always pessimistic and has…

  

  Ali Al-Sulaiti / Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Closet Sessions

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  ‘The Closet Sessions’ concept existed ever since hip-hop artist and director Ahmad “Satti” Ibra…

  

  Ahmad Ibrahim / Jordan, Qatar / Web Series

• The Curious Mr. Daoud

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  The writer Kamel Daoud is one of a kind. His words unleash passions, acerbic polemics and conde…

  

  Sidahmed Semiane / Algeria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Day Vladimir Died

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  Vladimir, an old Beirut resident, checks the obituaries page and attends funerals daily. Follow…

  

  Fadi Syriani / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

• The Exam

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  Rojin is about to attend her university entrance exam. If she fails, her father will force her…

  

  Shawkat Amin Korki / Iraq, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Freda

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  Freda lives with her mother, sister and little brother in a popular neighbourhood of Haiti. The…

  

  Gessica Fabiola GENEUS / Haiti, Benin, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Gaza Mon Amour

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  Gaza, today. Sixty-year-old fisherman Issa is secretly in love with Siham, a woman who works as…

  

  Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser / Palestine, France, Germany, Portugal, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Ghosts

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  İffet, a single mother in her 40s, lives in Sucular, a ghetto fighting against urban regenerati…

  

  AZRA DENİZ OKYAY / Turkey, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Gravedigger

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  Middle-aged Guled, a kindhearted gravedigger living with his family in the outskirts of Djibout…

  

  Khadar Ahmed / Finland, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Greatest Waitest

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  Zei loses her body in cyberspace and finds herself trapped in a city that bears an uncanny rese…

  

  Razan AlSalah / France, Canada, Palestine, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

• Hounds

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  In the working-class suburbs of Casablanca, father and son Hassan and Issam, struggle to surviv…

  

  Kamal Lazraq / France, Morocco, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• In The House Of My Father

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  Twenty-eight years ago, when Rachida was just 16, her father forced her to marry a Moroccan man…

  

  Rachida El Garani / Morocco, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Jean Genet, Our Father Of Flowers

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  An anonymous grave in the middle of a cemetery with a view of the sea. We are in Larache, south…

  

  Dalila Ennadre / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Key

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  Moshe and Elza are awoken by the cries of their 6-year old girl, Edina, who frequently hears so…

  

  Rakan Mayasi / Palestine, Germany, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

• LABAN: The False Prophets of Johann Sebastian Bach

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  The French take Lebanon over from the Ottoman Empire and decide to flood a village in order to…

  

  Daniel Joseph / Lebanon, France, Georgia, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Land Of Women

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  In an impoverished and patriarchal Egyptian village by the Nile, seven teenage girls rebel by f…

  

  Nada Riyadh / Egypt, France, Denmark / Feature Documentary

• The Last Displaced

  Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

  Fadi is a volunteer accompanied by Iraqi Forces. He lost communication with his family once ISI…

  

  Muhannad Al Sudany / Iraq, Qatar / Short Narrative

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