Film Funding

  • The Mountain

    Fall Grant 2010 - Post-Production Stage

    A work of shadowy implosion, the stark and largely silent narrative of Lebanese director Ghassa…

    Ghassan Salhab / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Mustang

    Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

    A village by the Black Sea, far from Istanbul. When they play a game in which they sit on boys’…

    Deniz Gamze Ergüven / Turkey, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • My Brother

    Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

    An artist and painter in his 40s, Mo Bensalah is a Moroccan immigrant’s son. We see his essence…

    Kamal El Mahouti / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • My Father is Not Dead

    Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    Malik and his father Mehdi live in a funfair where they work as handymen. One day, Mehdi offers…

    Adil El Fadili / Morocco, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • NARDJES A.

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    March 8th, 2019, International Women’s Day and the third consecutive Friday that the city of Al…

    Karim Aïnouz / France, Algeria, Germany, Brazil, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Nadia

    Fall Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

    How can you rebuild yourself when you lose your father and your homeland forever at the age of…

    Anissa Bonnefont / France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Naseem, Fight With Grace

    Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    ‘Naseem, Fight With Grace’ resurrects the captivating story of British-Yemeni featherweight bo…

    Ana Naomi De Sousa / United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Neighbours

    Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    In a Syrian border village in the early 1980s, little Sero attends school for the first time. A…

    Mano Khalil / Syria, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Normal

    Spring Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

    When the Arab Spring began in Tunisia and Egypt, Fouzi gathered a group of actors to show them…

    Merzak Allouache / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • O My Body!

    Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

    Seeking to bridge Mediterranean cultures, choreographer Abou Lagraa and his wife, dancer Nawal…

    Laurent Aït Benalla / France, Qatar, Morocco / Feature Documentary

  • Octopus

    Spring Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

    A filmmaker arrives to work on his new film and is confronted with a colossal explosion that ch…

    Karim Kassem / Lebanon, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Omar Amiralay - Sorrow, Time and Silence

    Spring Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

    This is not a portrait of the Syrian director Omar Amiralay. This is not a cross-section of the…

    Hala Alabdalla / France, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • On The Road To Downtown

    Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

    Through the lives of the characters and their simple daily details, we discover together the do…

    Sherif El Bendary / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Orca

    Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    Elham, a young divorced Iranian woman, survives a horrific beating at the hands of her estrange…

    Sahar Mossayebi / Qatar, Iran / Feature Narrative

  • The Orphanage

    Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    'The Orphanage' is set in Kabul in the late 1980s. 15-year-old Qodrat lives on the streets and…

    Shahrbanoo Sadat / Afghanistan, Denmark, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Outlandish

    Fall Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

    We cross Algeria’s history through three main characters: nowadays with Boubkeur (The Wanderer)…

    Tahar Kessi / France, Algeria, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • Ozogoche

    Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    The Cuviví is the only bird that inexplicably commits suicide. While most of the migrating huma…

    Joe Houlberg Silva / Ecuador, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Places of The Soul

    Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

    The story of ‘Places Of The Soul’ begins in Ushuaia, Argentina and follows an environmental exp…

    Hamida Issa / Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Plan 75

    Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    In Japan, the government's antidote for the huge economic burden of a super-greying population…

    Chie Hayakawa / Japan, France, Philippines, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Polaris

    Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    Hayat, an expert sailor in the Arctic, navigates far from humans and her family’s past in Franc…

    Ainara Vera / France, Greenland, Qatar / Feature Documentary