Film Funding

  • Halaa'

    Spring Grants 2023 - Development Stage

    An anthology series of Middle Eastern crime stories exploring the complex moral ironies surroun…

    Amal Al-Muftah / Lebanon, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Qatar / TV Series

  • Heights

    Spring Grants 2018 -

    Abdul’Rohim and his friends are young Rohingyas fleeing persecution in Myanmar to find refuge i…

    Faïza Yakoubi / Algeria, Romania, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Honey Cigar

    Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

    Paris, 1993—Selma, 17, lives in a bourgeois and secular Berber family in the suburbs. When she…

    Kamir Aïnouz / Algeria, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 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

  • Janitou

    Fall Grant 2015 -

    In Algeria in the mid-1980s, during a period of intense political and social unrest, the Bollyw…

    Amine Hattou / Algeria, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 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

  • The Language of Fire

    Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    It was night inside of me. Somewhere in the world, my being was torn in two. One was searching…

    Tarek Sami / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Last Queen

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    Algeria, 1516. Aruj Barbarossa, one of the most notorious pirates in history, frees Algiers fro…

    Damien Ounouri, Adila Bendimerad / Algeria, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia / Feature Narrative

  • Madame Courage

    Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    Omar, an unstable and lonely teenager, lives in a slum in the suburbs of the Algerian port city…

    Merzak Allouache / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Madmen's Fort

    Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    In 1860, the Algerian Sahara is coveted by the colonial powers of the time, who dream of it as…

    Narimane Mari / Algeria, France, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Matoub Lounès: The Story of a Legend

    Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

    In the Berber-speaking world, Kabyle singer Matoub Lounès is a legend. Assassinated in 1998, he…

    Régine Abadia / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • My English Cousin

    Fall Grants 2017 -

    2001, Fahed reaches the UK his head filled with dreams. 2018, in the thrall of a mid-life crisi…

    Karim Sayad / Algeria, Switzerland, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 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

  • Nobody's Son

    Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

    Nora learns that the Algerian government is planning to compensate victims of rape from during…

    Latifa Said / Algeria, France, 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

  • Nya

    Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    Suburbs of Algiers, 1994. Anya lives a seven-year-old child’s life, little aware of the tension…

    Imène Ayadi / Algeria, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Of Sheep and Men

    Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    Bab el Oued, Algiers, 2016. Men and sheep. Sixteen-year-old Habib dreams of becoming a veterina…

    Karim Sayad / Algeria, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Omar La Fraise

    Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage

    Omar Zerrouki, better known by his street name Omar la Fraise, is an old school gangster. Force…

    Elias Belkeddar / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • On the Hillsides

    Fall Grants 2016 -

    A wind of liberty called the Arab Spring has been blowing in this part of the world. Algeria re…

    Abdallah Badis / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Other Wife (working title)

    Spring Grants 2022 - Development Stage

    By adopting extreme measures to save the illusory refuge of her marriage, Salima is confronted…

    Meriem Mesraoua / France, Algeria, Qatar / Feature Narrative