• Janitou

  Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  In Algeria in the mid-1980s, during a period of intense political and social unrest, the Bollyw…

  

  Amine Hattou / Algeria, Germany, 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

• Kashkash

  Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

  In a region torn apart by tradition, modernity, war, geopolitical spheres of influence, migrati…

  

  Lea Najjar / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• 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 Hillbilly

  Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

  In the Appalachian Mountains, east of Kentucky, people feel less American than Appalachian. The…

  

  Thomas Jenkoe, Diane Bouzgarrou / France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Lebanese Rocket Society

  Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

  When filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige inadvertently discovered that their native…

  

  Khalil Joreige, Joana Hadjithomas / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Listen to the Silence

  Spring Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

  Nine years old and almost always smiling, Luka lives in a boarding school for deaf children, wh…

  

  Mariam Chachia / Georgia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Liyana

  Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

  Liyana is a young, fictional girl created by several young orphans in Swaziland, where the scou…

  

  Aaron Kopp, Amanda Kopp / Swaziland, Qatar, United States of America / Feature Documentary

• Looking for the Man with the Camera

  Spring Grant 2015 - Development Stage

  "Looking for the Man with the Camera" is a journey that takes the narrator from Geneva to the…

  

  Boutheyna Bouslama / France, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Loving Wallada

  Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  Wallada, the only child of one of the last Umayyad caliphs, al-Mustakfi murdered in 1025, asser…

  

  Nacer Khemir / Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Machtat

  Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

  Fatma and her two daughters Najeh and Waffeh, live in the neighbourhood of Bir Beranek in Mahdi…

  

  Sonia Ben Slama / Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Maghrebim

  Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

  The director returns to the roots of his family’s history, starting from footage his parents fi…

  

  Ivan Boccara / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Man Behind the Microphone

  Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

  Hedi Jouini is the most popular musical star in Tunisian history, known as the “Frank Sinatra o…

  

  Claire Belhassine / Tunisia, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Man Who Stole Banksy

  Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

  In 2007, anonymous street artist and activist Banksy painted a number of politically divisive a…

  

  Marco Proserpio / United Kingdom, Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• A Man on Fire

  Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

  The story of a man who was born and raised in a modest environment and aspired to be a superher…

  

  Ibrahim Harb / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• The Marriage Project

  Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  In southern Tehran, Ehsan House is an institute funded by private donators that has taken care…

  

  Atieh Attarzadeh, Hesam Eslami / Iran, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Matoub Lounès: The Story of a Legend

  Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

  In the Berber-speaking world, Kabyle singer Matoub Lounès is a legend. Assassinated in 1998, he…

  

  Régine Abadia / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Memory Exercises

  Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

  Between 1954 and 1989, Paraguay suffered one of the longest dictatorships in Latin America: 35…

  

  Paz Encina / Paraguay, Argentina, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Merry Christmas, Yiwu

  Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

  Communist ideals have long lost their value in Yiwu, a city with 600 Christmas factories, in wh…

  

  Mladen Kovacevic / Serbia, Sweden, Germany, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

• Midnight Traveler

  Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

  When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee wi…

  

  Hassan Fazili / Afghanistan, United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

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