Film Funding

  • The Idea of a Lake

    Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    Inés, a 35 year-old photographer, is expecting a child and is in an emotionally vulnerable stat…

    Milagros Mumenthaler / Switzerland, Argentina, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • If Only I Could Hibernate

    Fall Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    A poor but prideful teenager, Ulzii, lives in the yurt area of Ulaanbaatar with his mother and…

    Zoljargal Purevdash / Mongolia, France, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • In A Dream You Saw a Way to Survive and You Were Full of Joy

    Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    Layal, 21, returns home one night after a sexual encounter and joins her mother Salma, who is u…

    Remi Itani / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 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 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 Vitro

    Fall Grants 2018 -

    In a converted nuclear reactor, 70-year-old Dunia, the dying founder of a hi-tech orchard, pass…

    Larissa Sansour / Palestine, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 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

  • In the Shade of a Royal Palace (Dwellers of the Cabins)

    Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

    Through her relationship with her musician father, Hend tries to discover the history of her pe…

    Hend Bakr / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • In this Land Lay Graves of Mine

    Fall Grant 2012 - Production/Post-Production Stage

    In 2009, I sold my land in my village in South Lebanon to a Muslim, stirring a sectarian discou…

    Reine Mitri / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • InshAllah a Boy

    Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

    After the sudden death of her husband, Nawal is struggling to cope with the upheaval in her lif…

    Amjad Al Rasheed / Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, France / Feature Narrative

  • 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

  • The Insomnia of a Serial Dreamer

    Spring Grants 2016 -

    Facing his insomniac nature, the author of this film meets with several people, asking each one…

    Mohamad Soueid / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • Invasion

    Fall Grant 2013 - Post-Production Stage

    On the night of 20 December, 1989, the USA launched a massive invasion of otherwise peaceful Pa…

    Abner Benaim / Panama, Argentina, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Invented Biography

    Fall Grants 2017 -

    Arturo Belano, alter ego of the writer Roberto Bolaño, shared with his creator a significant pa…

    Nicolás Lasnibat / France, Chile, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Ismail

    Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

    A young Palestinian living in a refugee camp in 1949 struggles to escape imminent death when he…

    Nora Alsharif / Jordan, Palestine, United Kingdom, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • It Comes By Night

    Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    When men turn up dead, the old folks whisper of the "aswang"—a shapeshifting beast from folklor…

    Alyx Ayn Arumpac / Philippines, France, Norway, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 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

  • J'ai Le Cafard

    Spring Grants 2019 -

    Maryam, a single forty-two-year-old office employee is struggling with keeping up the appearanc…

    Maysaa Almumin / Kuwait, Qatar / Short Narrative