Film Funding

  • Nothingwood

    Spring Grants 2017 -

    About a hundred kilometres away from Kabul, Salim Shaheen, the most popular and prolific actor-…

    Sonia Kronlund / France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Of Fathers and Sons

    Fall Grants 2017 -

    Syrian filmmaker Talal Derki returns after his Sundance prize-winning documentary ‘Return To Ho…

    Talal Derki / Syria, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Orphanage

    Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    'The Orphanage' is set in Kabul in the late 1980s. 15-year-old Qodrat lives on the streets and…

    Shahrbanoo Sadat / Afghanistan, Denmark, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Our River...Our Sky

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production, Post-Production Stage

    Baghdad, 2006. All over the city, people of different religions are being forced out of their h…

    Maysoon Pachachi / United Kingdom, France, Germany, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Photographer

    Fall Grants 2021 - Development Stage

    Maher, a photographer for the Syrian regime, takes photos of deceased military personnel. The r…

    Anas Khalaf / Syria, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Plastic Flowers‏

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    A documentary about the experience of enforced disappearance in the prisons of ISIS told throug…

    Amer Mattar / Syria, Germany, Sweden, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Plot 35

    Fall Grants 2016 -

    Plot 35 is a place that was never mentioned in my family; it is where my elder sister, who died…

    Eric Caravaca / France, Germany, 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

  • Republic of Silence

    Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    They grew up in the lands of dictators and surveillance, where images are censored, photos are…

    Diana El Jeiroudi / Syria, Germany, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Rest In Piece

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    Amidst a cacophony of shelling, Midyan is forced to flee his war-torn home. Packing only a suit…

    Antoine Antabi / Germany, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • The Return

    Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    Taysir, a historian in his fifties, has settled in the French city of Marseille with his wife M…

    Meyar Al-Roumi / France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Return to Seoul

    Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    On an impulse to reconnect with her origins, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first…

    Davy Chou / France, Germany, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Rey

    Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    In 1860, a 35-year-old Frenchman explores Araucania, an autonomous region of southern Chile. Th…

    Niles Atallah / Chile, France, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Rising up at Night

    Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    Kinshasa, the capital city of 17 million people, is plunged into darkness and insecurity as its…

    Nelson Makengo / Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Belgium, Germany, Burkina Faso, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Road to La Paz

    Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    Thirty-five-year-old Sebastián’s greatest passions are his old Peugeot 505 and the prog-rock ba…

    Francisco Varone / Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Selma

    Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    After the accidental death of her taxi-driver husband, Selma decides to become master of her ow…

    Mohamed Ben Attia / Tunisia, Germany, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • The Settlement

    Spring Grants 2024 - Post-Production Stage

    In present-day Alexandria, a factory worker, Sayed el-Deeb, dies on the job. The only compensat…

    Mohamed Rashad / Egypt, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Shadow of a Man

    Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

    Ahmad, 26, is the best mechanic in the mountains of Lebanon. The only car he hasn’t had time an…

    Niam Itani / Lebanon, Germany, Qatar / 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

  • 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