Film Funding

  • I Am Here But You Can't See Me

    Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    In the fictitious city of Beirut lives Viola, a musician and the leader of an underground movem…

    Feyrouz Serhal / Lebanon, Spain, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • I Dreamt of Empire

    Spring Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    Cairo, 1980. Musa, a brilliant Egyptian professor, cannot move past the grief of losing his onl…

    Kasem Kharsa / Egypt, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • I Promise You Paradise

    Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    Following a violent incident; Eissa a 17 years old illegal African migrant in Egypt is in a que…

    Morad Mostafa / Egypt, France, Qatar / Short 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 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Jean Genet, Our Father Of Flowers

    Spring Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    An anonymous grave in the middle of a cemetery with a view of the sea. We are in Larache, south…

    Dalila Ennadre / Morocco, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Joint Possession

    Spring Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

    Tangier topography is in turmoil. Pharaonic real estate projects surround the Mansouria, a land…

    Leila Kilani / Morocco, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Journey

    Spring Grants 2016 -

    Baghdad, 30 December, 2006. Sara, an unassuming young woman, enters Baghdad’s central train sta…

    Mohamed Jabarah Al Daradji / Iraq, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature 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

  • Khmerica

    Fall Grants 2021 - Post-Production Stage

    Sokha is a Khmer-American. The son of Cambodian refugees, he grew up in the United States. He w…

    Antoine GUIDE / France, Cambodia, 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Land

    Fall Grant 2013 -

    The Denetclaws are a Native American family who live on the Prairie Wolf Indian Reservation. Ne…

    Babak Jalali / United Kingdom, Italy, France, Netherlands, Mexico, Qatar / Feature 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