Film Funding

  • 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

  • The Cave

    Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    Through the past seven years the civil war in Syria has spread death, horror and has cost a fri…

    Feras Fayyad / Denmark, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Cave

    Spring Grants 2018 - Development Stage

    To escape the ongoing aerial bombardment on hospitals and chemical weapon attacks that killed m…

    Feras Fayyad / Syria, Denmark, United States of America, 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

  • Chasing the Dazzling Light

    Fall Grants 2022 - Post-Production Stage

    A Syrian filmmaker who lives in Sweden searches for inspiration to make a film related to his n…

    Yaser Kassab / Syria, Qatar / Feature Experimental or Essay

  • Chasing the Dazzling Light

    Spring Grants 2021 - Development Stage

    In a small town in central Sweden, Yaser embarks on a journey searching for inspiration to make…

    Yaser Kassab / Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • A Comedian in a Syrian Tragedy

    Spring Grants 2016 -

    A gripping chronicle of a revolution and war, experienced by Syrian actor Fares Helou. As one o…

    Rami Farah / Syria, Denmark, Qatar, France, Norway / Feature Documentary

  • Damascus My First Kiss

    Spring Grant 2011 - Post-Production Stage

    When I got my first period, my mother kissed me and said with a smile: “Now you are a woman. Yo…

    Lina Alabed / Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Day I Lost My Shadow

    Spring Grant 2012 - Development Stage

    Sana is a young mother struggling to raise her eight-year-old child in war-torn Syria in 2012.…

    Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Day I Lost My Shadow

    Fall Grants 2017 - Post-Production Stage

    Sana is a young mother struggling to raise her eight-year-old child in war-torn Syria in 2012.…

    Soudade Kaadan / Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Dream Betrayed Me

    Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    Qamichli, Syria, 2004. Mesto, a 17-year-old boy, has but one dream—to join his city's football…

    Mohammad Alchikho "Shaikhow" / Syria, France, Belgium, Germany, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Forgotten

    Fall Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    Mustafa steals across the Israeli border with the help of a local smuggler. This is a one-way t…

    Ehab Tarabieh / Syria, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • From My Syrian Room

    Spring Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

    How can one operate as a free, creative person when one has been channelled to remain a good ci…

    Hazem Alhamwi / Syria, Lebanon, France, Germany, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Gevar's Land

    Spring Grants 2018 -

    Over four seasons, we follow the labour-filled days of Gevar, a Syrian refugee, whose small gar…

    Qutaiba Barhamji / Syria, France, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Homemade Stories

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production, Production, Production Stage

    Nidal, a Syrian filmmaker, must leave his home city of Damascus. He locks his door behind him a…

    Nidal Al Dibs / Egypt, Qatar, Syria / Feature Documentary

  • Hope

    Fall Grants 2017 -

    Hévi and Walat, a Kurdish-Syrian refugee couple in their thirties meet a human trafficker. They…

    Mohammad Shaikhow / Syria, Iraq, France, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • House No. 7

    Fall Grants 2023 - Development Stage

    After leaving their homes, trying to escape their conservative societies, and in pursuit of bas…

    Rama Abdi / Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • I Am One of Them

    Spring Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    At the lake of a small town, Grzegorz makes a living by guiding tourist cruises on his boat, on…

    Nadim Suleiman / Poland, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Ibrahim, a Fate to Define

    Fall Grant 2015 -

    Ibrahim Alabed, my father, was a secret member of the Revolutionary Council, a Palestinian mili…

    Lina Alabed / Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Ladder to Damascus

    Spring Grant 2011 - Production Stage

    Ghalia moves to Damascus to study acting and rents a room in a traditional courtyard house, whe…

    Mohamad Malas / Syria, Lebanon, Qatar / Feature Narrative