Film Funding

  • 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 Name Of Safia

    Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    An unfinished interview with my father, Tayeb Kessas, in February 2019, just before his death,…

    Safia Kessas / Algeria, Belgium, France, Qatar / Feature 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

  • In the Future, They Ate from the Finest Porcelain

    Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    ‘In the Future, They Ate from the Finest Porcelain’ resides in the cross-section of sci-fi, arc…

    Larissa Sansour / Palestine, United Kingdom, Denmark, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

  • Inside Me

    Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    A young Egyptian girl living with a conservative group that follows communal acts and practices…

    Halla Tarek / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • It Snows at Sidi Bou Said

    Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    My relentless travels between Paris and Tunis provoke as many discussions with my children as q…

    Fatma Chérif / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Jodari Meno

    Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    Born and raised in Qatar—a small middle eastern country that developed from a fishing village t…

    Jamal Al-Khanji, David Ochoa / Qatar, Italy, Zanzibar / Feature Documentary

  • Kash Kash

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    My hometown, Beirut, is torn apart by a corrupt political elite, anti-government protests, and…

    Lea Najjar / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Kawkabani

    Spring Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    'Kawkabani' is an entertaining animation series that tells stories from Qatar's local culture t…

    Hossein Heydar / Qatar / Web Series

  • The Key

    Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    Fathi Moftah, a child refugee, is obsessed with collecting keys. One day, while he is working a…

    Ghassan Jaradat / Jordan, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • The Key

    Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    Moshe and Elza, an Israeli couple, are awoken by the cries of their 6-year-old girl, Edina, who…

    Rakan Mayasi / Palestine, Belgium, Qatar, France / Short Narrative

  • Khartoum

    Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    Four Sudanese filmmakers mix observational documentary and innovative graphics, archives and an…

    Ibrahim Ahmad, Rawia Alhag, Anas Saeed, Timmea Ahmed / Sudan, United Kingdom, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Kinship

    Fall Grants 2021 - Production Stage

    Khalid and Noura are in the delivery room expecting their first newborn. Instead of being overc…

    Ali Al-Hajri / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • The Kiss

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Meriem and Reda are two young Algerian lovers, who have still not managed to exchange their fir…

    Azedine KASRI / France, Algeria, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • LABAN: The False Prophets of Johann Sebastian Bach

    Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    The French take Lebanon over from the Ottoman Empire and decide to flood a village in order to…

    Daniel Joseph / Lebanon, France, Georgia, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • La Nuit a Peine

    Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    'La Nuit a Peine' is conceived as a triptych—on either side of the central stage, the film came…

    Wiame Haddad / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

  • Ladder to Damascus

    Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    Ghalia moves to Damascus to study acting and rents a room in a traditional courtyard house, whe…

    Mohamad Malas / Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Lamb

    Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    As ‘Lamb’ opens, nine-year-old Ephraïm (an affecting As ‘Lamb’ opens, nine-year-old Ephraïm (an…

    Yared Zeleke / France, Ethiopia, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Land Was Well Past its Zenith

    Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    The film is a short experimental essay that wanders the streets of Beirut in 2024, five years a…

    Rita Mahfouz / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

  • Language

    Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    Used to reading and printing Braille, a blind man in Baghdad becomes a giant and finds he can “…

    Mortada Gzar / Iraq, Qatar / Short Narrative