Film Funding

  • 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

  • Al Baseer - The Blind Ferryman

    Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    The blind ferryman Ayoub lives with his mother and religious brother in the Iraqi marshes. He a…

    Ali Al-Fatlawi / Iraq, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Back to Alexandria

    Spring Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    After twenty years of absence, Sue must return to her native Egypt to see her mother, Fairouz,…

    Tamer Ruggli / Switzerland, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • 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

  • El Gran Movimiento

    Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    After a seven-day walk with his companions, young Elder arrives in the big city seeking to be r…

    Kiro Russo / Bolivia, France, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Ghost Hunting

    Spring Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    As a result of being jailed in the Shin Bet’s Al-Moskobiya investigation centre at the age of 1…

    Raed Andoni / Palestine, France, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Go Home

    Fall Grant 2011 -

    Nada is going home. Or at least she wants to. When she returns to Lebanon, she realises she's a…

    Jihane Chouaib / Lebanon, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Idea of a Lake

    Fall Grant 2015 - Post-Production Stage

    Inés, a 35 year-old photographer, is expecting a child and is in an emotionally vulnerable stat…

    Milagros Mumenthaler / Switzerland, Argentina, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • If Only I Could Hibernate

    Fall Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    A poor but prideful teenager, Ulzii, lives in the yurt area of Ulaanbaatar with his mother and…

    Zoljargal Purevdash / Mongolia, France, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • In Vitro

    Fall Grants 2018 -

    In a converted nuclear reactor, 70-year-old Dunia, the dying founder of a hi-tech orchard, pass…

    Larissa Sansour / Palestine, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Looking for the Man with the Camera

    Spring Grant 2015 -

    "Looking for the Man with the Camera" is a journey that takes the narrator from Geneva to the…

    Boutheyna Bouslama / France, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Madmen's Fort

    Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    In 1860, the Algerian Sahara is coveted by the colonial powers of the time, who dream of it as…

    Narimane Mari / Algeria, France, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Miracle of Almería

    Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    At the far end of Europe, on the southern border of Spain, lies Almería. It is a huge province…

    Moon Blaisse / Belgium, Switzerland, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • My English Cousin

    Fall Grants 2017 -

    2001, Fahed reaches the UK his head filled with dreams. 2018, in the thrall of a mid-life crisi…

    Karim Sayad / Algeria, Switzerland, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Nablus Runner

    Spring Grants 2020 - Development Stage

    Deya is a young Palestinian man passionate about marathon running. His obsession takes him thro…

    Haïcha Ladrouz / France, Switzerland, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Neighbours

    Fall Grants 2020 - Post-Production Stage

    In a Syrian border village in the early 1980s, little Sero attends school for the first time. A…

    Mano Khalil / Syria, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Of Sheep and Men

    Fall Grant 2015 - Production Stage

    Bab el Oued, Algiers, 2016. Men and sheep. Sixteen-year-old Habib dreams of becoming a veterina…

    Karim Sayad / Algeria, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Rapture

    Spring Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    One night, a 14-year-old boy collecting cicadas in the forest with other villagers disappears a…

    Dominic Sangma / India, China, Switzerland, Netherlands, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Rouge Parole

    Fall Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

    The Arab Spring erupted in a country where few would have expected, starting a political earthq…

    Elyes Baccar / Tunisia, Switzerland, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Source

    Fall Grants 2018 -

    November 2010. The Tunisian national anthem rings throughout the Thala High School courtyard. T…

    Erige Sehiri / Tunisia, Switzerland, Qatar / TV Series