Film Funding

  • 1982

    Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    A DFI Inclusive Screening Working in partnership with the Translation and Interpre…

    Oualid Mouaness / Lebanon, United States of America, Norway, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 3000 Nights

    Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    Falsely accused of being involved in terrorist activity, Layal is arrested, interrogated, and i…

    Mai Masri / Palestine, France, Jordan, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Abandon

    Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    A VR 360° short that tells the story of Khalil and Zalfa, a middle-aged couple, and how they sp…

    Farah Shaer / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

  • All this Victory

    Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

    In a small village in the south of Lebanon, during the last days of the July War, five people t…

    Ahmad Ghossein / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Amal

    Spring Grants 2017 -

    Amal, an angry teenager, comes of age in a post-revolution Egypt that is undergoing tremendous…

    Mohamed Siam / Egypt, Lebanon, France, Germany, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Amateurs, Stars and Extras, or the Labor of Love

    Fall Grant 2012 -

    Amateurs, Stars and Extras or the labor of love, looks at the invisible work of care through di…

    Marwa Arsanios / Egypt, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Asphalt

    Spring Grant 2011 - Development Stage

    'Asphalt' delves into the lives of two truck drivers on the road, crossing borders, towns and c…

    Ali Hammoud / Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Ayouni

    Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    Bassel was a successful open source developer and hacker in Damascus. Paolo was a well-known pr…

    Yasmin Fedda / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Baby Mine

    Fall Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    When a Middle Eastern man kidnaps his sickly daughter, her mother recruits a dubious neighbour…

    Nour Wazzi / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Batata

    Spring Grant 2015 -

    Shot over an unparalleled ten years, the latest film by Lebanese-Syrian director Noura Kevorkia…

    Noura Kevorkian / Lebanon, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Beauty and the Dogs

    Fall Grants 2016 -

    During a student party, Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, meets the mysterious Youssef and leaves…

    Kaouther Ben Hania / Tunisia, France, Sweden, Norway, Lebanon, Qatar, Switzerland / Feature Narrative

  • Beirut Hold'em

    Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    Fresh out of prison, Ziko is ready to start a new life. Determined to win back Carole, the love…

    Michel Kammoun / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Beirut of the Balkans

    Fall Grant 2013 - Production/Post-Production Stage

    Sarajevo has gone through historical stages that parallel those of Beirut: the old town, the he…

    Nicolas Khoury / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Experimental or Essay

  • Birds of September

    Spring Grant 2012 - Production/Post-Production Stage

    Hiding behind the glass of his moving bubble, the narrator explores the streets of Beirut while…

    Sarah Francis / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • The Blue Star

    Spring Grants 2018 -

    It all happened one dark night. The Man was tired of being a stranger, tired of being insulted…

    Valentin Noujaïm / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Short Documentary

  • Bystander

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production, Production, Production Stage

    On a sunny July day in Beirut, Roger, a beloved basketball coach, is on his way to work, proudl…

    Rachel Aoun / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Ceuta's Gate

    Fall Grants 2017 -

    Ceuta’s Gate is a series of reconstructed situations based on observations made on the border o…

    Randa Maroufi / Morocco, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Short Documentary

  • Champ of the Camp

    Fall Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    Hailed by critics world-wide for its entertaining yet sympathetic look at the labour issue in t…

    Mahmoud Kaabour / United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Chaos

    Fall Grants 2017 -

    ‘Chaos’ narrates the story of three women in three cities – three women who have given up on li…

    Sara Fattahi / Syria, Austria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Children of the Famine

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    Between 1915 and 1918, a famine killed an estimated two hundred thousand people, almost half of…

    Reine Mitri / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary