Film Funding

  • The Flower Men

    Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    ‘The Flower Men’ is a feature and observational-investigative documentary film that explores the…

    Yousra Ishaq / Yemen, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Fragments From Heaven

    Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    The Moroccan desert has recently experienced several large meteor showers. In its arid lands no…

    Adnane Baraka / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • From My Syrian Room

    Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

    How can one operate as a free, creative person when one has been channelled to remain a good ci…

    Hazem Alhamwi / Syria, Lebanon, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Froth

    Fall Grants 2018 -

    ‘Froth’ depicts the customs and everyday life on the coast of the Barents Sea. At the heart of…

    Ilia Povolotskiy / Russian Federation, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Geology of Separation

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    A poignant exploration of the migrant experience, this documentary-drama hybrid focuses on the…

    Yosr Gasmi, Mauro Mazzocchi / Tunisia, France, Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Gevar's Land

    Spring Grants 2018 -

    Over four seasons, we follow the labour-filled days of Gevar, a Syrian refugee, whose small gar…

    Qutaiba Barhamji / Syria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Ghost Hunting

    Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    As a result of being jailed in the Shin Bet’s Al-Moskobiya investigation centre at the age of 1…

    Raed Andoni / Palestine, France, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Grain of Sand

    Spring Grants 2022 - Development Stage

    Figuig was cut in two when France drew (or sliced?) the border between Morocco and Algeria. It…

    Nadja ANANE / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Great Family

    Fall Grant 2015 - Development Stage

    ‘The Great Family’ follows the story of Marlene, a 43-year-old woman who was adopted from Leban…

    Eliane Raheb / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Green Line

    Fall Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

    “In my country, they call me “The Cat”, because like cat I died seven times, and seven times I…

    Sylvie Ballyot / France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Guardian Of The Worlds

    Spring Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

    Hassan recalls the first night that Jellaz became his shelter. After burying his parents and tw…

    Léïla Chaïbi / France, Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Handala, the Boy Without a Face

    Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    Handala, the Palestinian refugee child, appeared in thousands of political caricatures to shed…

    Mahmoud Kaabour / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Horseed

    Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    Basketball, one of the oldest and most popular games among Somali women, is now an endangered s…

    Hana Mire / Somalia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Sweden, Congo, Republic of, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • House in the Fields

    Fall Grants 2016 -

    High in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, life in an isolated rural Amazigh community has changed…

    Tala Hadid / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • I Used to Sleep on the Rooftop

    Spring Grants 2016 -

    Nuhad, a 53-year-old Syrian woman, had never left Syria until the war made her reconsider her e…

    Angie Obeid / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • I, Hummus

    Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

    When I landed in Canada in 2006, I became recognized as a giant walking plate of hummus. Being…

    Rawane Nassif / Lebanon, Canada, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • Ibrahim, a Fate to Define

    Fall Grant 2015 -

    Ibrahim Alabed, my father, was a secret member of the Revolutionary Council, a Palestinian mili…

    Lina Alabed / Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 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

  • In The Middle

    Spring Grants 2019 -

    In a rarely seen perspective of war, we follow Ali—a Yemeni soldier on tour in the temporary ca…

    Mariam Al-Dhubhani / Yemen, Qatar / Short Documentary

  • In the Claws of a Century Wanting

    Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    Anne gives birth to her third child. Akira learns reading and writing while foraging for scrap…

    Jewel Maranan / Philippines, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary