Film Funding

  • Shadow of the Butterflies

    Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    This is a film about the time that has gone, about regrets and fear of our own choices. It is a…

    Sofia El Khyari / France, Morocco, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Shadows

    Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    It’s Ahlam’s first time at an airport. But soon, the excitement of travelling to a new place is…

    Rand Beiruty / Jordan, Qatar / Short Documentary

  • Shambhala

    Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    In the heart of Nepalese Himalayas, Pema, a spirited woman, embraces a polyandrous marriage wit…

    Min Bahadur Bham / Nepal, France, Norway, Hong Kong, Turkey, Taiwan, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Shame

    Spring Grants 2021 - Production Stage

    On their way back home from baseball recruitment tryouts, Pedro and Lucio are pulled off their…

    Miguel Salgado / Mexico, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Shelter

    Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

    Ahmad struggles to survive in the ghettos of Beirut. He cannot remember his past or where he ca…

    Kasem Kharsa / Lebanon, Qatar, Iraq, Egypt / Feature Narrative

  • Ship Of Fools

    Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

    She didn’t even know they were bombs. When her father could no longer pretend they were falling…

    Alia Haju / Germany, Lebanon, Qatar / Short Documentary

  • The Silence of the Wind

    Fall Grants 2016 -

    Rafito deals in smuggling undocumented people from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico, a ter…

    Álvaro Aponte-Centeno / Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • A Simple Cut

    Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    After 14-year-old Kholoud rebels and cuts her hair without her mother's approval, what should b…

    Maha Al-Jefairi / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • A Simple Cut

    Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    After 13-year-old Kholoud rebels and cuts her hair without her mother's approval, what should b…

    Maha Al-Jefairi / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Sink

    Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    Nadia (40) is a wife and mother to three children. Through her seemingly perfect life, she stru…

    Zain Duraie / Jordan, France, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Siren of Faso Fani

    Fall Grant 2013 -

    Through the eyes of former workers at the once-famous cotton factory in Burkina Faso, ‘The Sire…

    Michel K. Zongo / Burkina Faso, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Sirena

    Fall Grants 2018 -

    Lake Titicaca, 1984. Renowned La Paz engineer Morgan Cabrera drowns in a boating accident. An u…

    Carlos Piñeiro / Bolivia, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Sister

    Spring Grants 2018 -

    In a small town in present-day Bulgaria, a mother and her two daughters are struggling to survi…

    Svetla Tsotsorkova / Bulgaria, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Sivas

    Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

    Set in a bleak Anatolian village, ‘Sivas’ tells the story of 11-year-old Aslan and Sivas, a wea…

    Kaan Müjdeci / Turkey, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Six Feet Over

    Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    Sofiane is an Algerian who has enjoyed a relatively easy life growing up abroad as a diplomat's…

    Karim Bensalah / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Sleepless nights

    Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    Two people irrevocably changed by war come together in ‘Confession and Struggle,’ an unflinchin…

    Eliane Raheb / Lebanon, France, United Arab Emirates, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Smile You Deserve It

    Spring Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    A forever-smiling farmer proves that hard work and optimism can bring you the fruit of success.…

    Ibrahim Albuainain / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Soaring Over Mayhem

    Spring Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    In the brutal lands of northern Syria, 10- year-old bird enthusiast Rami struggles to survive a…

    Abdullah Al-Wazzan / Kuwait, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Sociophobia

    Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    A young boy is strolling with his parents on a bustling street but manages to slip away from th…

    Malek Hebiri / Tunisia, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Sofia

    Spring Grants 2017 -

    Sofia lives with her parents in Casablanca. Suffering from pregnancy denial, she finds herself…

    Meryem Benm’Barek / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative