Film Funding

  • A Deep Long Breath

    Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

    In 18 days, the January 25 Egyptian Revolution toppled a three-decade-old dictatorship and Egyp…

    Tahani Rached / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Demba

    Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    55-year-old Demba is about to retire after 30 years of service at the city hall in his small to…

    Mamadou Dia / Senegal, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Democracy Year Zero

    Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

    Four weeks. That is how long it took the Tunisian people to overthrow the dictator Zine El Abid…

    Amira Chebli, Christophe Cotteret / Tunisia, Belgium, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Devil's Drivers

    Spring Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

    The southern West Bank with its beautiful landscapes is home to many Palestinian Bedouins. In t…

    Daniel Carsenty, Mohammed Abugeth / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Die Welt

    Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

    'Die Welt' is an audacious hybrid of fiction and documentary, showing contemporary Tunisia shor…

    Karim Alexander Pitstra / Tunisia, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story

    Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    Madagascar, nowadays. Twenty-year-old Kwame struggles to make a living in the clandestine sapph…

    Luck Razanajaona / Madagascar, France, Mauritius, Germany, South Africa, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Divines

    Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production 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

  • The Dog's Children

    Fall Grants 2016 - Post-Production Stage

    In Jeddah during the economically transformative year of 1973, a rabid neighbourhood dog cataly…

    Layan Abdul Shakoor / Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Déserts

    Fall Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    Set in the vast, unforgiving landscapes of southern Morocco, ‘Déserts’ tells the tale of two pe…

    Faouzi Bensaïdi / Morocco, France, Germany, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • East of Noon

    Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    In the ruins of an industrial complex outside time, Shawky (70), an eccentric showman, rules wi…

    Hala Elkoussy / Netherlands, Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • El Gran Movimiento

    Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    After a seven-day walk with his companions, young Elder arrives in the big city seeking to be r…

    Kiro Russo / Bolivia, France, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 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

  • Escape

    Spring Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

    'Escape' is a poetic and intimate journey on the path of exile, through the story of five Syria…

    Katia Jarjoura / France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Exam

    Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

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

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

  • Excursion

    Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    IMAN (15) and her class are planning their end of primary school excursion. While their parents…

    Una Gunjak / Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, France, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Eyes of a Thief

    Spring Grant 2013 - Post-Production Stage

    Inspired by real events, ‘Eyes of a Thief’ is a rare glimpse into Palestinian society from the…

    Najwa Najjar / Palestine, Algeria, France, Iceland, Jordan, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 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

  • February 19

    Spring Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

    It is February 19. The train will depart with Anna and Alex. Years have passed; the day has com…

    Tamara Stepanyan / Armenia, Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • A Fidai Film

    Fall Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

    In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army occupied Beirut; soon after raided the Palestinian Rese…

    Kamal Aljafari / Palestine, Germany, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • 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