• '81

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  When tasked by officials to pursue entry into the 1981 FIFA Youth World Championships in Austra…

  

  Dawood Al-Anwari, Ali Al Anssari / Qatar / Feature Narrative

• 143 Sahara Street

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Malika lives alone in the middle of the desert. There she runs a small restaurant serving two d…

  

  Hassen Ferhani / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 7 KM - Seven Kilometers

  Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  1992, somewhere in Algeria. Omar and Othman, two boys from the same poor village, walk the seve…

  

  Oussama Benhassine / Algeria, Qatar / Short Narrative

• Al Zubara

  Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Taking place in Qatar 150 years into the future, Jassim Mohammed, driven by revenge since the a…

  

  Hamad Al Mansouri / Qatar / TV Series

• All this Victory

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  In a small village in the south of Lebanon, during the last days of the July War, five people t…

  

  Ahmad Ghossein / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Asphalt

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  'Asphalt' delves into the lives of two truck drivers on the road, crossing borders, towns and c…

  

  Ali Hammoud / Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Behind Closed Doors

  Fall Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  ‘Behind Closed Doors’ is a portrait of a farming family living in one of the most marginalised…

  

  Yakout Elhababi / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Behind Closed Doors

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  Six-year-old Leila and her mother, Sara, have a close relationship. They live a comfortable lif…

  

  Hend Fakhroo / Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Beirut 1931

  Fall Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  “K.” arrives in his native Jaffa after the disappearance of “M.” Like a lurking shadow, “M.” wo…

  

  Kamal Aljafari / Palestine, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Beretta

  Fall Grant 2013 - Development Stage

  Suad, a mute Egyptian woman, is constantly harassed by the old men of Cairo and one day decides…

  

  Sophia Al-Maria / Qatar, Egypt, United Arab Emirates / 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

• Bull Shark

  Spring Grants 2016 - Development Stage

  ‘Bull Shark’ is inspired by real events that took place during the second wave of economic grow…

  

  Mohammed Al Ibrahim / Qatar, Bahrain, United States of America / Feature Narrative

• The Cave

  Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

  To escape the ongoing aerial bombardment on hospitals and chemical weapon attacks that killed m…

  

  Feras Fayyad / Syria, Denmark, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Dancing Beirut

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  A group of dancers wander through Beirut, looking for spaces where they can generate visual, so…

  

  Alia Hamdan, Fares Chalabi / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

• Daughters of Abdul-Rahman

  Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

  Single and middle-aged, Zainab lives a dreary existence as a local seamstress and her father’s…

  

  Zaid Abu Hamdan / Jordan, Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• The Day I Lost My Shadow

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  Sana is a young mother struggling to raise her eight-year-old child in war-torn Syria in 2012.…

  

  Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Days of Grace

  Spring Grants 2017 - Development Stage

  A young Syrian man is faced with a dilemma: he has only a few days to leave Beirut to go abroad…

  

  Saleh Nass / Bahrain, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Divines

  Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  In a ghetto where trafficking and religion run side by side, Dounia is eager for power and succ…

  

  Houda Benyamina / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

• Do You Love Me

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  ‘Do You Love Me’, named after the widely popular Bendaly Family song that was released in 1978…

  

  Lana Daher / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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