Film Funding

  • '81

    Fall Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    When tasked by officials to pursue entry into the 1981 FIFA Youth World Championships in Austra…

    Dawood Al-Anwari, Ali Al Anssari / Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 143 Sahara Street

    Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

    Malika lives alone in the middle of the desert. There she runs a small restaurant serving two d…

    Hassen Ferhani / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 143 Sahara Street

    Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    In her little restaurant in the middle of the Algerian desert, a woman writes her history. Ther…

    Hassen Ferhani / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 1976

    Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house to supervise its renovation. Her husband, chil…

    Manuela Martelli / Chile, Argentina, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 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

  • 19B

    Fall Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    An abandoned villa, deserted by its owners since the 60s, is only inhabited by its guard, who r…

    Ahmad Abdalla / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 2 Rooms and a Parlor

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    Khalil Suleiman has always preferred to stay away from other people, but after his wife’s death…

    Sherif El Bendary / Egypt, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 200 Meters

    Spring Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    Mustafa and his wife Salwa come from two Palestinian villages that are only 200 meters apart, b…

    Ameen Nayfeh / Palestine, Jordan, France, Germany, Italy, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 2G

    Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    Agadez, 2021. Following the ban on unlawful migrant transportation by the Niger government, fou…

    Karim Sayad / Algeria, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 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

  • 5 Seasons of Revolution

    Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

    An aspiring video journalist in her 20s finds herself already facing self-reckoning. Born in Da…

    Lina / Syria, Germany, Norway, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • 7 KM - Seven Kilometers

    Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

    1992, somewhere in Algeria. Omar and Othman, two boys from the same poor village, walk the seve…

    Oussama Benhassine / Algeria, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • 7 Waves

    Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

    A magical realist tale inspired by local Arabian Gulf mythology and set in Khaleeji modernism.…

    Hamida Issa / Qatar, Saudi Arabia / 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

  • Abo Zaabal 1989

    Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    In 1989, Mahmoud Mortada, Bassams father, was arrested, imprisoned and tortured at the infamous…

    Bassam Mortada / Egypt, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Abou Leila

    Spring Grants 2017 -

    Algeria, 1994. Terrorist attacks have ravaged the north of the country for the past two years.…

    Amin Sidi-Boumédiène / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Abu Fanoos

    Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    Nineteen-year-old Khaled drives up to a small, isolated farm in 1980s Qatar where his reclusive…

    Horia El Hadad, Amira Abujbara / Qatar, Morocco / Short Narrative

  • Across the Sea

    Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    Nour, 27, has emigrated illegally to Marseille where and his friends are living off petty crime…

    Saïd Hamich Benlarbi / France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Adam

    Spring Grants 2018 -

    Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-ye…

    Maryam Touzani / Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • After Tahar

    Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

    A patriarch, Tahar: Indochina war, psychiatric hospitals. A grandmother, Taklit: marriage, exil…

    Soufiane Adel / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary or Essay