Film Funding

  • Dona Césaria

    Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

    Césaria Evora is an internationally renowned singer whose voice rings with the culture, ambienc…

    Dima Al-Joundi / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Egyptian Jeanne d'Arc

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    ‘Egyptian Jeanne d’Arc’ is a creative documentary that explores issues of female emancipation i…

    Iman Kamel / Kuwait, Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Embers

    Spring Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

    A dialogue between two generations is represented by Tamara, the grandchild of an older Tamara…

    Tamara Stepanyan / Armenia, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Facing the Dragon

    Spring Grants 2018 -

    In a documentary filmed over four years, filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi intimately follows two uncon…

    Sedika Mojadidi / Afghanistan, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Faya Dayi

    Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    'Faya Dayi' is a uniquely beautiful, award-winning documentary that explores the widespread use…

    Jessica Beshir / Ethiopia, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Fidaï

    Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    During the war in Algeria, El Hadi, the great uncle of filmmaker Damien Ounouri joined his sist…

    Damien Ounouri / Algeria, France, China, Germany, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Foreign Son

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    Answering the call of his homeland, of which he retains only childhood memories, 50-year-old Om…

    Abdallah Badis / France, Qatar, Algeria / Feature Documentary

  • Freedom Fields

    Spring Grant 2012 -

    In post-revolution Libya, a group of women are brought together by one dream: to play football…

    Naziha Arebi / Libya, United Kingdom, United States of America, Netherlands, Canada, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Freedom Fields

    Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

    Filmed over five years, 'Freedom Fields' follows three women and their football team in post-re…

    Naziha Arebi / Libya, United Kingdom, Netherlands, United States of America, Qatar, Lebanon, Canada / Feature Documentary

  • Gaddafi's Girls

    Fall Grant 2012 - Development Stage

    Known as the Amazons or Revolutionary Nuns, they were personally selected by Colonel Gaddafi fo…

    Sylvia Stevens / Libya, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Gaza 36mm

    Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    There are no longer any cinemas in Gaza due to the force of fundamentalist Islam, which sees th…

    Khalil El-Muzayen / Palestine, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Grandma, a Thousand Times

    Fall Grant 2010 - Post-Production Stage

    'Grandma, a Thousand Times’ puts a feisty Beiruti grandmother at the centre of brave film exerc…

    Mahmoud Kaabour / Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Guapo'y

    Fall Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    Surrounded by sounds from a jungle-like garden, a woman inhabits the gloom of her bedroom, cove…

    Sofia Paoli Thorne / Paraguay, Argentina, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Hawa

    Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    Filmed over five years, this documentary is the chronicle of an Afghan family and, more particu…

    Najiba Noori, Ali Rasul Noori / Iran, France, Netherlands, Afghanistan, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Heights

    Spring Grants 2018 -

    Abdul’Rohim and his friends are young Rohingyas fleeing persecution in Myanmar to find refuge i…

    Faïza Yakoubi / Algeria, Romania, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Holidays In Palestine

    Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    Shadi, a Palestinian activist turned French citizen, returns to Wadi Rahal in occupied Palestin…

    Maxime Lindon / France, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Home Sweet Home

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    The filmmaker’s father spent 40 years as the director of a secular school he founded in Beirut’…

    Nadine Naous / France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Homemade Stories

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production, Production, Production Stage

    Nidal, a Syrian filmmaker, must leave his home city of Damascus. He locks his door behind him a…

    Nidal Al Dibs / Egypt, Qatar, Syria / Feature Documentary

  • The House That My Mother Built

    Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    While the Sudanese revolution’s defeats and victories were mainly captured and seen from outsid…

    Alyaa Musa / Sudan, Qatar / Web Series

  • I Am One of Them

    Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    At the lake of a small town, Grzegorz makes a living by guiding tourist cruises on his boat, on…

    Nadim Suleiman / Poland, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary