Film Funding

  • Perhaps What I Fear Does Not Exist

    Spring Grants 2019 -

    “I can’t believe this is happening”, I said to myself when my father’s body failed unexpectedly…

    Corine Shawi / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The President's Visit

    Spring Grants 2016 -

    In a small fishing town, Nino sells soap at his Sultan of Soap shop. When he received a highly…

    Cyril Aris / Lebanon, United States of America, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Rabies

    Spring Grants 2023 - Development Stage

    Julia (60) is an ageing History professor who was a fighter in the Lebanese war. A free soul, s…

    Sandra Tabet / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Riverbed

    Fall Grants 2016 - Production Stage

    Riverbed tells the story of Salma and her returning daughter Thuraya, and their attempt to pres…

    Bassem Breche / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • A Road to Damascus

    Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    Based on Meedo’s novel of the same title. A bus carrying immigrant farmers is gunned down just…

    Meedo Taha / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Roshmia

    Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

    Since 1956, when he became a refugee from downtown Haifa’s Wadi Alsaleeb neighbourhood, 80-year…

    Salim Abu Jabal / Palestine, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Roundabout in My Head

    Spring Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    While it may seem strange to think of an abattoir as a place of peace and beauty, ‘Roundabout…

    Hassen Ferhani / Algeria, France, Lebanon, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • The Sea Ahead

    Spring Grants 2018 -

    A young woman walks out of the Beirut airport alone and makes her way back home to her parents’…

    Ely Dagher / Lebanon, France, Belgium, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Sea Salt

    Fall Grants 2021 - Production Stage

    On another hot summer day, Nayla wakes up, prays, then accidentally cuts herself while shaving…

    Leila Basma / Lebanon, Czech Republic, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Searching For Kikhia (working Title)

    Spring Grants 2019 -

    When director Jihan Kikhia was six years old, her father disappeared. He flew to Cairo and neve…

    Jihan Kikhia / Libya, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Servants

    Fall Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    Nabil is the guard of an old villa located by the mouth of a river. Sayed Walid, an influential…

    Marwan Khneisser / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Seven Mountains and Seven Seas

    Spring Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    Tamar, an old man, lies sick in bed in his neat European apartment. He struggles to liberate hi…

    Noel Keserwany / France, Lebanon, Qatar / Short 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • A Son

    Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    Tunisia, Summer 2011. Fares, Meriem, and their 10-year-old son Aziz are a modern and happy Tuni…

    Mehdi Barsaoui / Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Son of a Dog

    Spring Grant 2013 - Development Stage

    Set against the backdrop of a never-ending war, ‘Son of a Dog’ is the coming-of-age story of 17…

    Alain Sauma / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Souraya Mon Amour (Working Title)

    Fall Grants 2022 - Development Stage

    Excerpts from the film 'Little Wars', an old correspondence, and other family and personal arch…

    Nicolas Khoury / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Stable Unstable

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    It is December 31 in Beirut. Seven people are visiting their psychologists, clinging to the hop…

    Mahmoud Hojeij / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative