Film Funding

  • 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

  • The Poster

    Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    A poster appears on the walls of the Palestinian village of Reith, accusing the local women of…

    Suha Arraf / Palestine, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The President's Cake

    Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    It’s April 26, 1991. Today is “draw day,” which means that schools across Iraq will select stud…

    Hasan Hadi / Iraq, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The President's Visit

    Spring Grants 2016 -

    In a small fishing town, Nino sells soap at his Sultan of Soap shop. When he received a highly…

    Cyril Aris / Lebanon, United States of America, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Prisoner and Jailer

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    The story of two contrasting Libyans, one a key official in the former regime, the other one of…

    Muhannad Lamin / Libya, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Professor

    Spring Grant 2012 -

    In 1977, Khalil Khalsawi, a constitutional law teacher in Tunis, is commissioned by the governi…

    Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud / Tunisia, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Project: AISHA

    Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    Amal, a neurosurgeon in her late 30s, almost loses her daughter, Aisha, in a fatal car accident…

    Fahad Al-Nahdi / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • A Proposal

    Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    Nasser, a young Qatari man, dreams of marrying his American fiancé. However, marriages between…

    Nadia Al-Khater / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • A Proposal

    Fall Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

    Nasser, a young Qatari man, dreams of marrying his American fiancé. He finds himself at the Min…

    Nadia Al-Khater / Qatar / Short Narrative