Film Funding

  • Lonely Rock

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    Fidel is a fifty-year-old llama herder living in a sparsely populated community in the Argentin…

    Alejandro Telemaco Tarraf / Argentina, Mexico, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Man Behind the Microphone

    Fall Grant 2014 - Post-Production Stage

    Hedi Jouini is the most popular musical star in Tunisian history, known as the “Frank Sinatra o…

    Claire Belhassine / Tunisia, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Man Who Stole Banksy

    Fall Grants 2017 -

    In 2007, anonymous street artist and activist Banksy painted a number of politically divisive a…

    Marco Proserpio / United Kingdom, Italy, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Men in the Sun

    Fall Grant 2013 - Development Stage

    Chatila, Fatah and Abu-Love, three Palestinian refugees, dream of escaping Athens after seven y…

    Mahdi Fleifel / Palestine, Greece, United Kingdom, Denmark, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Midnight Traveler

    Spring Grants 2018 -

    When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee wi…

    Hassan Fazili / Afghanistan, United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Mornings in Jenin

    Fall Grants 2020 - Development Stage

    Philadelphia 2001. Amal lives an unremarkable life with her daughter, Sara, but mother and daug…

    Annemarie Jacir / Palestine, United States of America, United Kingdom, Qatar / TV Series

  • My Father's House

    Fall Grants 2020 - Production Stage

    In 2012, two weeks after ‘A World Not Ours’ was completed, my father died at the age of 59. He…

    Mahdi Fleifel / Denmark, United Kingdom, Palestine, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Naseem, Fight With Grace

    Fall Grants 2023 - Post-Production Stage

    ‘Naseem, Fight With Grace’ resurrects the captivating story of British-Yemeni featherweight bo…

    Ana Naomi De Sousa / United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Naz (working title)

    Fall Grants 2017 - Development Stage

    One of the most successful and entertaining sporting icons of the 1990s, Naseem Hamed’s unique…

    Omar El-Khairy, Ana Naomi de Sousa / Palestine, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Not Dead But Sleeping

    Fall Grants 2023 - Production Stage

    ‘Not Dead But Sleeping’ is a film about two women whose worlds collide as they confront grief a…

    Arwa Aburawa, Turab Shah / Jordan, Sweden, United Kingdom, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Our River...Our Sky

    Fall Grants 2019 - Post-Production, Post-Production Stage

    Baghdad, 2006. All over the city, people of different religions are being forced out of their h…

    Maysoon Pachachi / United Kingdom, France, Germany, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Somebody Clap for Me

    Fall Grant 2012 -

    This poetic rollercoaster ride chronicles Ugandan youth reclaiming their right to a voice by br…

    Luciana Ceccatto Farah / Brazil, Uganda, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • The Teacher

    Spring Grants 2021 - Production Stage

    Basem El-Saleh, a Palestinian school teacher, pieces his life together after the loss of his so…

    Farah Nabulsi / Palestine, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • The Woodman

    Spring Grants 2019 - Post-Production Stage

    A surreal feature film with a thriller theme, and a life-sized wooden dummy as the protagonist,…

    Koutaiba Al-Janabi / Iraq, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Narrative

  • Theeb

    Spring Grant 2013 - Production Stage

    Arabia, 1916. Theeb [Wolf] lives with his Bedouin tribe in a forgotten corner of the Ottoman Em…

    Naji Abu Nowar / Jordan, United Kingdom, Qatar, United Arab Emirates / Feature Narrative

  • This Is Congo

    Spring Grants 2016 -

    'This Is Congo’ is an unblinking, unfiltered look into one of the world’s longest-standing ongo…

    Daniel McCabe / United States of America, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Canada, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Though I Know the River Is Dry

    Fall Grant 2012 - Post-Production Stage

    Alaa has just returned to Palestine after years spent in Detroit. Following the Arab uprisings,…

    Omar Hamilton / Egypt, Palestine, United Kingdom, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • The Time Tree

    Fall Grants 2017 - Production Stage

    Based on the children’s novel by the best-selling author Enid Richemont, 'The Time Tree' is a s…

    Celine Cotran / Lebanon, United Kingdom, Qatar / Short Narrative

  • Trophy

    Fall Grants 2016 -

    ‘Trophy’ takes an in-depth look at the multi-billion dollar industry behind big-game hunting, a…

    Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz / United States of America, United Kingdom, Qatar / Feature Documentary

  • Under the Shadow

    Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage

    A victim of the post-revolution state crackdown on dissidents, one-time medical student Shideh…

    Babak Anvari / Iran, United Kingdom, Jordan, Qatar / Feature Narrative