Film Funding

  • The Wall

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    In this engaging and endearing short, director Odette Makhlouf Mouarkech locates a seemingly im…

    Odette Makhlouf Mouarkech / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Wallay

    Fall Grants 2016 -

    When 13-year-old Ady gets himself into trouble in a French suburb, his father decides to send h…

    Berni Goldblat / France, Burkina Faso, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Walls and People

    Spring Grant 2012 - Production Stage

    This film is a cry from the heart of the Medina of Casablanca for its inhabitants and their mem…

    Dalila Ennadre / Morocco, Algeria, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Walou

    Fall Grant 2011 - Development Stage

    I hate the bled! When I was young, every summer, going to Algeria, I couldn’t do anything witho…

    Hassiba Belhadj / Algeria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Watch Before Deletion

    Spring Grants 2019 - Development Stage

    An episode of a radio show revisiting the life of an Arab music icon takes an unexpected turn w…

    Mohammad Shawky Hassan / Egypt, Germany, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • Waves

    Fall Grant 2012 -

    Before he came to power, a fortune teller told Hosni Mubarak that he would reach a powerful pos…

    Ahmed Nour / Egypt, Morocco, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Waves '98

    Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    The complex relationship of contemporary Beirutis to their troubled home city is beautifully im…

    Ely Dagher / Lebanon, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • A Way Home

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    After years of separation, the filmmaker renews her relationship with her mother, Aïcha, who is…

    Karima Saidi / Morocco, Belgium, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • We Are Inside

    Fall Grants 2018 - Production Stage

    Being away for a decade, Farah returns to her father’s place in her hometown Tripoli, Lebanon.…

    Farah Kassem / Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • We Could Be Heroes

    Fall Grant 2015 -

    In the run-up to the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games, Azzedine Nouiri, the world champion in seated s…

    Hind Bensari / Denmark, Morocco, Tunisia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • We Have Never Been Kids

    Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

    Since 2003, Mahmood Soliman has tracked the subjects of his​ ​2003 documentary ‘Living Among Us…

    Mahmood Soliman / Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Wear & Tear

    Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    Ayda has been an operator at a call centre for several years. She is in her forties and lives b…

    Sarra Abidi / Tunisia, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Weedestine

    Fall Grants 2022 - Development Stage

    In Palestine’s “Area C,” an unpoliced fractured zone, marijuana cultivation is thriving due to…

    Said Zagha / Palestine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Sweden / Feature Narrative

  • Weldi

    Spring Grants 2017 -

    A Tunisian couple are nearing retirement age, but times are hard, and money is tight. The life…

    Mohamed Ben Attia / Tunisia, France, Belgium, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • West of May

    Fall Grants 2022 - Production Stage

    In 'West of May', I want to describe Lebanon through the portrait of the Alayli family. This fa…

    Sarah Srage / Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • What Brings You Here?

    Spring Grants 2022 - Development Stage

    Rashid finds himself lost in the desert among the dunes, where he finds a strange object buried…

    Abdulla Alemadi / Qatar / Short Narrative

  • What Comes Around

    Fall Grant 2012 -

    In Rod El Farag, one of the poorest residential areas in Cairo, obtaining meat, fruit and daily…

    Reem Saleh / Lebanon, Egypt, Greece, Slovenia, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • What We Left Unfinished

    Fall Grants 2018 - Post-Production Stage

    'What We Left Unfinished' tells the incredible and mostly true story of five unfinished feature…

    Mariam Ghani / Afghanistan, United States of America, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • What's Your Story? Part I

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production/Post-Production Stage

    Jamal, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, meets five young Israelis with differing ideological pe…

    Jamal Khalaile, Pauline Carbonnier / Palestine, France, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • When Two Worlds Collide

    Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    ‘When Two Worlds Collide’ traces the epic journey of Alberto Pizango, an indigenous leader faci…

    Heidi Brandenburg, Mathew Orzel / Peru, Qatar / Feature Documentary